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I have a pretty strong belief that the right home chooses you. There's a little magic, a little unexpected, and a lot of impossible involved. It's been true of all the homes I've truly loved and never more true then this one in California.
In the summer of 2015 I moved back to Santa Monica, California into a (very small) temporary condo. I'd begin a long and daily search for my dream home. As someone who spent most of her life in the countryside or small towns, I was exhausted by the intense city living I'd been doing since moving to America years ago. I wanted somewhere quiet, with views outside my window that weren't of my next door neighbour, I wanted space to putter, to garden and to host friends. I wanted simple things like a place to park my car without having to circle blocks looking for parking.
After living in so many homes, I knew exactly what I liked and didn't and finding something in a market that doesn't have inventory but does have crazy prices was proving to be really difficult and frankly depressing.
I was ready to give up when, one morning, I searched outside of my normal area and comfort zone: Topanga Canyon. It was only 10 miles to Santa Monica or Malibu, 4 miles to the beach and seemingly miles away from civilization. I saw a listing that had a photo of a home I knew instantly was meant for me, on an acre with so much nature including a chicken coop and a Provence-style garden. Neighbours but you couldn't see them and noise? Only birds. It had lots of windows, lots of light, lots of white and lots of space.
There was an open house two days later so I made sure to be there as soon as it opened but another couple had got there first. I was worried because I could hear them being aggressive about the home – what they'd do to it, what they wanted changed, moving plans. I walked through the front door and as I stood in the kitchen I heard them talk to the realtor that they wanted it. They'd take it. They'd go home and make the arrangements. It would be a done deal.
And I remember thinking, "oh no you won't. This is my home."
I waited in the kitchen until that couple left and then walked out to talk with the realtor who was brokering the lease. I said, "I've heard the conversation you had with the other couple. Should I even bother?"
I'll never forget, but she gave me this grin, squeezed my hand and I swear with a twinkle in her eye said, "Yes. I think you should." It was this strange but cheeky feeling like she was letting me in on a secret – she wanted me to have it. I hadn't spoken to her before and that's all we said but that was enough.
When I applied I wrote a huge letter for the owners. Telling them how I'd grown up in the country, how I'd lived in and owned historic homes and knew how to look after them, how I loved to garden and craved peace. How I wanted to live somewhere for a long time and would sign a long lease. And how I felt like it was home. And I was so ready to feel at home, since the past 9 months 75% of my things had been in storage and the past several years I'd felt in flux and not settled.
And then, the next day, the owners accepted my offer and two weeks later I moved in.
When I met with the owners and the realtor, I mentioned how I knew it was my home from the start and the realtor said "I believe the home chooses the person. And this home chose you."
And it did. It really did.
Furniture that I've had for a long time that's always kind of not fit the next house completely fits into specific areas of my home – almost like what I had was made for this place. I no longer hear neighbours yelling but coyotes howling. I don't wake up to dogs barking but birds singing. I've got my white walls upstairs but now I have dark, cosy wood and flooring downstairs. I have views, quiet, and peace. It's total calm here and a place that just feels happy. I think that comes through in photos which is why I have friends coming almost every other weekend for the next six months and I couldn't be happier. I have the sparest of spare rooms that feels like a treehouse and I can't wait to share it with friends, and now, with you.
The Canyon House details:
The house was originally hand built in 1925 as a hunting lodge. The stone on the first floor is native to the area and is pretty common up in the canyon. It's in a high-risk fire area so having a stone foundation helped owners to show ownership of land if a fire happened. The first floor has a lot of original details like an original Wedgewood stove, farmhouse sink and wood oven stove in the living room. The first floor is also the 'cosy' floor and new for me in terms of style. It feels to me like a home in Provence with all the wood/stone, slate floors in the living room and cork floors in the kitchen. The first floor windows also look level at the backyard because the house is built into a hill.
The second floor feels like a treehouse, surrounded by bougainvillea and lots of windows. There's a large guest room/office with original built ins and the master bedroom is about the size of my previous Santa Monica flat. White walls + lots of sun = one happy girl.
The landing that connects the first and second floor is actually pretty large with big doors that go out to the backyard. The backyard has a built-in stone seat and a cat-run! The front yard is huge with the most amazing canyon views, a trail that goes down to a large chicken coop and continuing down that trail goes to studio/office.
There's no cell reception here which the Laura Ingalls in me is very happy about.
I've never committed to anything as long as I've committed to this place is the first home that actually feels like a hygge house. There is a natural charm to the home because of how/why it was built, the fact that it's only had two owners so it hasn't really been changed and that there's space without feeling big. Plus there's something about this area that feels a world away from everything.The home feels both simple and luxurious, cosy and open, and calm yet energizing. Hygge!
I'm not a city person so being in here and having nature around me helps to balance out the wonderful-crazy that is my work and give me (and friends) a place to rest.Being here is what finally allowed to cross something off my bucket list – love my home, my work and my city all at the same time.


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The latest out of the Atlantic Division, where the Knicks remain in last place..
- The Knicks would prefer to keep Iman Shumpert out of a deal for Kyle Lowry for the purpose of including him in a future trade and perhaps packaging him with Amar'e Stoudemire, a source tells Frank Isola of the Daily News. Isola adds that the Knicks' play over the next 48 hours could determine whether or not they make the deal with injuries playing a major factor.
- If the trade talk is getting to Knicks veteran Metta World Peace, then he's not letting on to the public. "There's nothing to deal with,'' World Peace said, according to Marc Berman of the New York Post. "It's like, 'What am I dealing with? I'm getting paid to play basketball.' Some guys take trade rumors more personal. What am I dealing with? I work hard. I still can play. I love challenges. All the teams that called me, I wanted an adventure — China, Knicks, Arena Football. This is an adventure. This is good. You have to be ready for the unpredictable. I'm glad I can go through unpredictable situations.''
- The Boston Herald's Steve Bulpett gives credit to the Celtics' bench, featuring newcomers Phil Pressey and Vitor Faverani.
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A quick synopsis is: Enigmatic and sexy, Professor Gabriel Emerson is a well-respected Dante specialist by day, but by night he devotes himself to an uninhibited life of pleasure. He uses his notorious good looks and sophisticated charm to gratify his every whim, but is secretly tortured by his dark past and consumed by the profound belief that he is beyond all hope of redemption. When the sweet and innocent Julia Mitchell enrols as his graduate student, his attraction and mysterious connection to her not only jeopardizes his career, but sends him on a journey in which his past and his present collide. An intriguing and sinful exploration of seduction, forbidden love and redemption, "Gabriel's Inferno" is a captivating and wildly passionate tale of one man's escape from his own personal hell as he tries to earn the impossible...forgiveness and love. SIGH!!
Just reading the synopsis is making me want to re-read this book. Its everything it says a well written magnificent forbidden love story. it's not your typical love story though, Sylvain has set the pace rather slow but it compliments the sweet heroine of the story Julia. Julia Mitchell is in graduate school going for her masters and studying Dante. She is sweet, beautiful, shy, timid, caring, innocent and has had a troubled childhood and a bad past relationship. You watch Julia bloom into a better version of herself she didn't know existed from what she was in the beginning to the end of the book.
Gabriel Emerson is a Dante Specialist Professor. He is dark, has a tortured past, puts up a cold front to hide what he is battling inside, passionate and just well WOW.
When Gabriel realizes exactly how sweet Julia fits into his past he cant help but want her, obviously she feels the same (she has since their night in the orchid many years ago) there has been nobody but Gabriel for Julia. Of course there are rules and regulations about student and professor relationships, only allowed if they are professional. Because of this rule, Gabriel must keep a professional relationship with Julia, though he is becoming more and more attracted to her which is making it difficult to fight his feelings for her.
Its not the perfect love story by far. There are emotional heart-aching scenes for Julia, she cries, she gets angry, she gets sad and well she has Gabriel to blame for that (when he is a pompous-ass to her in the beginning).
When he finally realizes Julia is his long lost Beatrice that had to be one of the most emotional scenes out of them all. Gabriel has a few gut-wrenching scenes as well.
This first long kissing scene in Gabriel's office is hands-down the most sultry and erotic description of a kiss that I've read EVER. Each of their kisses from then all mean something to them, they are slowly building their relationship and foundation of love.
I loved how well the description of the touch of hands, fingers, and thumbs was described, it was so well-written and subtle.
If you don't know a thing about Dante's work you will after this, Reynard has definitely has done his research and a lot of homework on this one. I have not read anything by Dante Alighieri so I got a little lost a times but it all fell into place and you end up getting a history lesson without knowing.
If your ready to get emotional in a book then read, it is full of forbidden love, heartache, despair, lust and redemption. You cant help but feel connected to Julia and Gabriel, the authors well-written words make sure of that, you feel as you are the characters living through what they did and are.
A thing I might mention is that Sylvain Reynard is a man author, I did not know this until after I finished. I've never read a book written by a man before so this was new and exciting once I knew. It's not that I have chosen not to read a book by a man before, I've just never come across one before I wanted to read, until now. The intense scenes are different to any other romantic book I have read and we have Sylvain to thank for that. The scenes written from a males perspective was incredible!
It started of slow in the beginning but once you found out about each character I had many late nights and early mornings getting consumed by it.


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Ear Coning-Ear Candling
Ear Coning-Ear Candling
The art of ear coning has been around for centuries.
Ear coning, also called ear candling, was used by ancient Chinese, Egyptian, Tibetan, Mayan, Aztec, and American Indian cultures. European, Mexican Indian, and Cherokee healers continue to practice ear coning. Today, German medical students are taught ear coning as a part of their medical practice.
Ear coning cleans the eustachian tubes. The eustachian tube is one of the drains of the lymphatic which has the daily job of cleaning your blood. It releases the toxins it accumulates through the surface of the skin, the elimination tract and through the eustachian tubes.
As the beeswax candle/cone burns, the burnt beeswax forms a slightly tacky powdery smoke. As you look into the top of the burning cone, you can see the smoke spirals down in the cone. As the smoke from the ear cone moves through the tube, the smoke's sticky particles adhere to toxins that get carried back by the smoke to be collected in the ear cone. Also, the flow of the ear cone smoke stimulates the upper respiratory system to begin its self-cleaning process.
Ear Coning is very relaxing and non-invasive, and there is no heat felt in the ear canal.
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Riddles of Fate: Wild Hunt
Defeat a ghostly army in Riddles Of Fate: Wild Hunt! You have been summoned to the town of Osville, where a legion of spirits controlled by the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse roam the streets in search of one young girl. Only the mysterious prisoner in the tower knows how to save the city... But you'll have to get to him first! Uncover the secrets of the Wild Hunt army, and learn the truth behind the prisoner's ultimate betrayal in this mesmerizing Hidden Object Adventure game!
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English version - Riddles of Fate: Wild Hunt
Dark Sisterhood: The Initiation
Mayan Prophecies: Cursed Island Collector's Edition
Questerium: Sinister Trinity
Sea of Lies: Mutiny of the Heart
Witches' Legacy: Lair of the Witch Queen
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July issue.
World Demand For Rubber To Reach 31.7 Million Metric Tons
2/26/2016 -
Cleveland, OH - World demand for rubber is forecast to rise 3.9 percent per year to 31.7 million metric tons in 2019. Gains will be driven by increased tire manufacturing, which represents by far the largest application for rubber. Rising income levels in developing regions, particularly in the Asia/Pacific region, will support gains in motor vehicle manufacturing and usage, fueling demand for tires and, in turn, rubber. Growth in manufacturing activity will also support increased demand for rubber in non-tire applications such as automotive components, industrial rubber products, medical products and footwear, notes analyst Elliott Woo. These and other trends are presented in World Rubber, a new study from Freedonia Group, a Cleveland-based industry research firm. The Asia/Pacific region is projected to post the fastest growth in rubber consumption through 2019 and will account for nearly two-thirds of global demand in that year. Through 2019, six of the seven fastest growing national rubber markets worldwide (Iran is the seventh) will be located in the Asia/Pacific region. Indonesia, India and Thailand are expected to post the fastest growth. Demand for rubber in China, Malaysia and Vietnam will also advance rapidly, benefiting from gains in manufacturing activity. China will remain by far the worlds largest rubber market, representing over half of the Asia/Pacific total in 2019. Demand for rubber in Central and South America and the Africa/Mideast region will rise at solid rates also, benefiting from growth in their tire industries. Demand for rubber will advance at below average rates in North America and Europe through 2019. The maturity of economies throughout these regions will constrain growth in the manufacture of rubber consuming products. However, gains in tire manufacturing in both regions will support advances in rubber demand. Western Europe is forecast to post the slowest growth in rubber demand through 2019. The regions tire industries have suffered from producers shifting operations elsewhere in the world, and the permanent closure of tire manufacturing facilities will limit the ability of Western Europes rubber market to recover from the regions recent economic weakness. World Rubber (published 02/2016, 393 pages) is available for $6,300 from The Freedonia Group. The Freedonia Group is a leading international industrial research company publishing more than 100 studies annually. Since 1985 it has provided research to customers ranging in size from global conglomerates to one-person consulting firms. More than 90 percent of the industrial companies in the Fortune 500 use Freedonia Group research to help with their strategic planning.
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At the 2003 E3 Expo, Blizzard Entertainment® gave show attendees an exclusive look at one of "Warcraft® III: The Frozen Throne(TM)'s" highly anticipated single-player campaigns.
With the multiplayer beta test nearing completion, the campaigns are among the last of many new features that are being finalized in preparation for the expansion set's launch this summer.
In "The Frozen Throne," players revisit the war-torn world of Azeroth. Several months have passed since Archimonde and the Burning Legion were defeated at the battle of Mount Hyjal, but a new threat has arisen throughout the land.
The campaign follows the traitorous Death Knight Arthas and the renegade Night Elf Demon Hunter Illidan as they battle their way toward the mysterious Icecrown glacier in Northrend. Imprisoned within this icy tomb is the soul of Ner'zhul, the evil Lich King responsible for unleashing the Undead Scourge upon the world of Azeroth.
As the saga unfolds, the villains' intentions are revealed, and the fate of the world will once again find itself in the hands of the resilient Human Alliance and the stalwart Night Elf Sentinels.
"Our plan for the expansion set is to increase the scope and depth of the `Warcraft' universe in many ways," stated Mike Morhaime, Blizzard Entertainment president and co-founder. "In addition to expanding the rich story line, `The Frozen Throne' will also increase the strategic gameplay possibilities available to players, with a wide array of new Heroes and units specifically designed to enhance each race."
Following in the tradition of previous Blizzard expansion sets, "Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne" offers many new features and enhancements to the original game's experience.
Key features include:
4 new race-specific Heroes, each with a complementary set of powerful spells and abilities
2 new units per race, adding depth to the strategies and tactics that players can employ
3 new tilesets, featuring new lands to explore and numerous new creeps and critters
Player-built shops, equipped with items uniquely designed for each race
5 neutral Heroes that players can recruit to strengthen their armies, such as the Dark Ranger and the Pandaren Brewmaster, each with unique spells and abilities
New neutral buildings that provide players with additional units, new magical items, and a new mode of transportation
Expanded multiplayer options over Battle.net®, including clan and tournament support
Numerous new multiplayer maps
An enhanced world editor that allows players to create and connect their own custom campaigns, complete with cut-scenes and voiceovers
4 single-player campaigns, including a bonus RPG-style mini-campaign designed to demonstrate the power of the world editor
Slated for worldwide release in the summer of 2003, "Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne" will bring all of these new features and enhancements to the fastest-selling PC game ever, "Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos(TM)." To date, "Reign of Chaos" has sold well over 3 million copies worldwide(a). "The Frozen Throne" is expected to retail for approximately $35 and has received a Teen Rating from the ESRB.
Since its debut in 1994, the #1-selling "Warcraft" series has won industry acclaim and has shattered sales records worldwide with more than 8 million copies sold(a). In 1995, Blizzard followed the well-received "Warcraft: Orcs and Humans(TM)" with the highly acclaimed "Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness(TM)," considered by many critics to be one of the best games ever made.
In 2002, Blizzard expanded the boundaries of the epic "Warcraft" universe with the release of "Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos(TM)." This third chapter in the legendary saga quickly became the fastest-selling PC game ever(a) and has since garnered numerous Game of the Year awards.


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Explicit representation of subgrid heterogeneity in a GCM land surface scheme
Essery, R. L. H.
Best, M. J.
Betts, RA
Cox, Peter M.
Taylor, Christopher M.
Date issued
Journal of Hydrometeorology
American Meteorological Society
A land surface scheme that may be run with or without a tiled representation of subgrid heterogeneity and includes an implicit atmospheric coupling scheme is described. Simulated average surface air temperatures and diurnal temperature ranges in a GCM using this surface model are compared with climatology. Surface tiling is not found to give a clear improvement in the simulated climate but offers more flexibility in the representation of heterogeneous land surface processes. Using the same meteorological forcing in offline simulations using versions of the surface model with and without tiling, the tiled model gives slightly lower winter temperatures at high latitudes and higher summer temperatures at midlatitudes. When the surface model is coupled to a GCM, reduced evaporation in the tiled version leads to changes in cloud cover and radiation at the surface that enhance these differences.
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|Clinique All About Shadow Duo in Strawberry Fudge
This is especially true for me, because I have a wicked sweet tooth in all realms of life, not just the kitchen. As for my make-up sweet tooth? Clinique is taking care of that.
Clinique's duo in Strawberry Fudge initially caught my eye while idly browsing in Boston Store. I usually frequent their make-up counters for fun but rarely do I actually get the nerve to buy much.
But this beauty? Ohoho, I just couldn't shake it. It's gorgeous, soft yet brightening, and utterly wearable for every occasion.
The pink is a tricky one here, because initially it seems just a shimmery light pink shade, but it's so much more. When swatched to put on the lids, it turns to a bright, shimmering gold duochrome pink that lights up the eyes in the best way.
The coppery brown is equally good, just not as surprising. Both are buttery soft and easily blended. They wear fairly well, at least a good 7-ish hours on me before I notice creasing.
Overall I think the value is pretty nice too, $20.00 for both of them here, which is too bad a price in my opinion for a "counter" brand like Clinique. You get plenty of products and a nice, chic silver mirrored compact with a mirror in the lid and an applicator with a brush that's not amazing but at least decent.
|Wearing Clinique duo on lids.
This is definitely one brand I'd choose for my sweet tooth beauty cravings again. The offerings it has are just far too goo to ignore.
Where to buy: Clinique, $20.00


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CAER Seminars
Bioenergy Forest Plantations
Jeff Wright
ArborGen, Inc.
September 13, 2011 at 10:00am
Ben Bandy Conference Center
UK Center for Applied Energy Research
Bio-energy hardwood forest plantations will supplement woody biomass from other sources such as logging residues. In the southern US, projections are for an increase of up to 25 million "new" tons of demand for bio-energy. To supply this woody biomass demand will require purpose grown hardwood plantations of various species including eucalypts, hybrid aspen, sweetgum, hybrid poplar and cottonwood, amongst others. Forest plantation yields can be 8-15 green tons/acre/year on rotations of 5-12 years.


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For Sport Cruising with more specific needs, the Zodiac Bayrunner Series offers design ingenuity. The Bayrunner features a cockpit design with Yamaha digital readouts and bench seating with large underseat storage areas. An attractive highlight of the Bayrunner Series is the ample forward seating area suitable for the entire family. Made in the U.S.A.


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Calabrese is already serving life in prison.
Federal agents went into Calabrese's home looking for anything of value that might help satisfy the $27 million he owes the government as part of his racketeering life sentence. What the FBI found was an Outfit treasure trove - some hidden in a hole in the wall.
"I guess the feds got lucky today," said Joe Lopez, Calabrese attorney.
It was a rare understatement from Calabrese's lawyer, Joe "The Shark" Lopez. Just how lucky the feds were at Frank Calabrese's west suburban home will be up to a federal grand jury that continues to look at Outfit evidence, more than two and a half years after Calabrese was convicted of racketeering murder in Operation Family Secrets.
It was a Calabrese family montage that federal agents say concealed some of the mob treasures, a stockpile stashed inside a basement wall.
Authorities removed seven loaded guns wrapped in paper towels and, they say, wiped clean of prints. Investigators believe the guns were used in Outfit crimes. They found envelopes, each stuffed with cash totaling $728,481. And, according to an FBI affidavit, they also found 1,000 pieces of jewelry, including loose diamonds.
"I don't know whose it is. My client hasn't been in that house since 1995. He's been in continuous custody," said Lopez.
Indeed, the last time we saw Calabrese, Sr. as a free man was 15 years ago running from the I-Team's camera.
Even when Frank "The Breeze" catches wind of what happened at his house Tuesday morning, it won't affect him as it could John "No Nose" DiFronzo and other current leaders of the Outfit who are still on the street and in the feds' cross hairs. That is because of what may be heard on numerous microcassette tapes, 10 to 15 tapes, according to the affidavit, found hidden behind a wall. The FBI believes Calabrese himself probably recorded the conversations with other top hoodlums over the years as he rose through the ranks. Those conversations could finally do them in.
"I don't see any further charges or anything being put against Mr. Calabrese. If the government's theory is that material all belongs to Mr. Calabrese, that's something from the past that he's already been convicted of," said Lopez.
Federal agents and prosecutors did not comment on Wednesday's development or answer questions such as: could the loose diamonds have once been part of the famous 45-carat Marlborough diamond stolen by the mob in 1980?


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Cora Banks is a southern siren. In her own words, she's a freelance model, aspiring actress and occasional photographer who has been featured in Playboy. She hails from Louisville, Kentucky and has a 'Move to L.A.' fund so super-fans can help her dream come true. Her measurements are 32-23-33.
Cora Banks was interesting in modeling even before she knew what it was. "Growing up my older sister used to make me dresses from hand and have me model them while she photographed. We were playing model/designer/photographer before we even really knew what it was."
She told acquiringman.com she'll kiss on the first date…if it's been earned. She shared that her ideal date "has nothing to do with where we go or what we do…it is ALL about the connection." She's turned on by a sense of humor, tall men with muscles and confidence. "I am also a sucker for tattoos, but they have to mean something and have a story to tell." She told Playboy, "You've got to take your time with me. Work your way up, and I'll take you to the top. Redheads are the best in bed."
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If she could go on a date with anyone, dead or alive, she said, "Frank Sinatra, because he was such a romantic and I would really like to see what a night out on the town with him would be like."
Cora Banks said what surprises people most about her is "how loud and silly I can be…I guess because I am small people expect me to be quiet, calm, but baby I am LOUD and PROUD. Also how much I love to get naked…that is usually a surprise to people." She added, though, "I'm a little bit shy when I meet new people. I come across as really outgoing, but I'm pretty shy. I open up quickly, but it's always that first meet-and-greet that gives me butterflies."
Cora Banks is complimented most on her butt. "Even though I'm a small girl, my butt's pretty big. So I like that about myself…and it seems others like it, too."
She got involved with Playboy after an associate there saw her pictures on Model Mayhem. "I think I bring to the table that all-natural, girl-next-door type that I really feel that Playboy tries to bring out."
When not modeling, Cora Banks likes to go out with friends, sometimes betting on horses at Churchill Downs. She is also a college student majoring in Communications. She added, "I love being outdoors, especially if it is on the beach. I would love to surf one day, but I also love to ride horses." She is currently single, and as of this posting, still in Louisville, Kentucky.


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And here's another: of the following women, do you consider any or all of them to be visual poets? Yoko Ono, Mina Loy, Hannah Hoech, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Cecilia Vicuña
There are at least two segments on each question: are you a poet and if so are you a visual poet?


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The Razor Labyrinth
The Razor Labyrinth is a Demon Game being played in Person in San Jose California (characters set in Baltimore Md) and over the internet all over the world (characters set in New York New York)
It is a game about the dreams of demons, Espionage, and Horror and used the Demon the Decent Ruleset.
Hopefully when all of the internet players are ready we can work out times to set up a skype or google hangouts session to allow more shit to get done, but until that point, the first prompt is availiable in the adventure logs. once you get your characters accepted.


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If the media doesn't tell us what happened to mm's firing?
Tmz or the tabloids will gladly tell us. The globe ran a piece on billy millers decision to leave the show! I wonder if the new issues will write about it!
While the tabloids aren't necessarily truthful, they are better than nothing! Once the story does get out, people will get hurt but its worse from a tabloid who are known to put their spin on it!
Just tell the truth!
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I'm in Atlanta, Georgia at Silverpop's Customer Conference. One of the hot topics here has been yesterday's announcement by the FTC that it is changing the rules in the US around unsubscribing.
Essentially you need to ensure that your reader can kiss you off with a single click, and without having to enter more than an email address.
I doubt this level of regulation will ever make the statute books in the UK, but then (as I've posted and talked about so often) the difference between law and best practice remains wide.
But if you were, say, Sainsburys,and you were American, you'd have 45 days to improve your opt-out process.
I got frustrated with the company last week as I get its emails in multiple accounts, but to opt out I need to remember username, password and which email account I signed up with. Hitting 'SPAM' is SO much easier. Sorry guys.
They are by no means the worst over here in the UK - a 'major drinks brand' incurred my displeasure several months back for asking would-be unsubscribers to fill in 42 fields of required data (inside leg measurement was probably the cut-off point).
When will marketers learn that if people want to go, you should let them go quietly... unless they want to make them REALLY hate them?
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(PRWEB UK) 16 January 2014
A weekly LoveBurton hour on social networking website Twitter is putting the town firmly on the UK map.
Every Thursday, between 8pm and 9pm, local businesses and organisations are encouraged to include the hashtag #loveburton in their tweets. This helps them to connect with other local businesses and customers and raise their profile.
Just five months after it started, the LoveBurton hour is outstripping many other Twitter hours which have been set up in recent years to promote businesses in other towns and counties.
The idea for LoveBurton hour was hatched over a coffee last summer between Burton Business Club Chairman Ian Page and business growth coach Jaz Greer, of Make a Difference.
Jaz said: "We thought it would be a great way to bring local businesses together and also to promote the town. Compared to many other Twitter hours, we can see that LoveBurton is getting four times as many tweets posted. It's a great way of businesses networking online and making connections that can translate into useful business relationships."
LoveBurton has also moved into the real world with Burton MeetUps now being held in the town on the second Friday afternoon of every month for those who follow LoveBurton hour.
At the first Burton Meetup of 2014, at the town's Holiday Inn Express (Fri Jan 10), some 40 businesses met to cement the connections they had made on Twitter and look at how they could help grow each other's businesses.
Ian, who also runs web development company Webb2b Burton Limited ( http://www.web-b2b.co.uk ), said: "I'm delighted by how LoveBurton hour has taken off and it's great to see these businesses meeting up and discovering how they might work together in the future. There's a lot of love for Burton from the companies based here and that's why we chose the LoveBurton hashtag rather than just calling it BurtonHour."
Speaking at the latest Burton MeetUp, Jaz said: "I think there's a real mood of optimism in the local business community and people are thinking positively about how to grow their businesses in the coming year. We hope to organise more LoveBurton events in 2014 to help boost local businesses and the local economy."
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The Twitter hour is part of the Love Burton project which Ian is championing to help Burton businesses grow and develop. More information about local events to help businesses can be found at http://www.loveburton.co.uk. Ian is also Burton on Trent champion for the Government-backed Start Up Britain campaign which seeks to support and inspire new business start-ups.
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This month's sprout spaghetti dinner is next Wednesday night, January 12. It will be held at sprout's studios at 339R Summer St, just outside Davis Square in Somerville. Spaghetti will be prepared by Food Not Bombs, with dinner served at 730PM and performances at 8PM. There is a $10 suggested donation, but all are welcome.
This month's theme is Not Your Typical Library.
We all know what public libraries are and that they're in trouble. Even in Somerville, we're hearing about the funding battles and support campaigns underway. At this month's sprout spaghetti dinner, we're going to look at a different set of libraries and library services–not your typical libraries. Maybe they don't traffic in books; maybe they aren't run by the government; maybe they're just bookcases in someone's living room. Whatever it is that sets these libraries apart, we want to hear their stories and how they handle issues that we traditionally associate with Public Libraries: access, censorship, safety, sharing, curation, and more.
Our performers will include ::
+ Sara Peattie and The Puppet Free Library
+ Heather McCann and The Boston Radical Reference Collective
+ Anna Mudd and other members of The Papercut Zine Library
+ personal monologues sharing small-scale libraries in people's homes and workplaces
+ with music from The Moondog Madrigal & The Spaghetti Dinner House Band
The Spaghetti Dinner House Band?!
Yes! As always, there is an open invitation to play with the house band. There will be a rehearsal Sunday January 9 @ 1PM @ sprout's studios. All non-electric instruments and skill levels welcome!
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* Euro hits lowest since Sept. 18, implied vols rise
* ECB meeting on Thursday key for common currency
* ECB may flag deposit rate cut to push euro lower
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LONDON, Nov 4 (Reuters) - The euro earned a reprieve on Monday after business surveys showed manufacturing in the euro zone accelerated as predicted in October, though many investors were looking to sell it at higher levels.
Speculators and investors are rapidly cutting bullish bets on the euro and their selloff is likely to accelerate in coming days on mounting expectation that the European Central Bank may loosen policy in the near term.
The euro was up 0.2 percent at $1.3510, gaining ground after the manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) survey. Earlier, the euro fell to $1.3442 on trading platform EBS, its lowest level since Sept. 18 in thin trade in Asia. Despite its recovery, the euro is well below a two-year high of $1.3833 struck on Oct. 25.
The drop in the euro, which shed more than 2 percent last week, triggered a rush to hedge against further weakness. One-month euro/dollar implied volatility, a gauge of how choppy a currency is expected to be, jumped to its highest in two months at 7.525 percent.
Traders said the euro is likely to stay under pressure before the ECB's policy meeting on Thursday. After data last week showed a plunge in the euro area's inflation rate, a growing number of banks, including UBS and RBS analysts, believe that a cut in the refinancing rate could come as soon as Thursday.
The ECB's refinancing (refi) rate is at 0.5 percent.
"The PMIs have given some relief to the euro, but we think there are considerable downside risks to business activity," said Manuel Oliveri, FX strategist at Credit Agricole.
"While we don't expect the ECB to cut the refi rate this week, given the downside risks to inflation from a stronger currency, we expect (ECB chief) Mario Draghi to possibly flag a cut in the deposit rate. That would be negative for the euro."
A cut in the deposit rate, at which banks park excess cash with the ECB, to negative territory would make holding the euro expensive and force investors to sell it. It would also make the euro a funding currency for carry trades, where investors borrow in a cheap currency to buy a higher-yielding one.
"We remain of the view that the euro will continue to struggle and investors will fade into rallies," said Jeremy Stretch, head of currency strategy at CIBC World Markets. "The bias remains for it to ease as markets drive the ECB to address disinflationary pressures building in the euro zone."
The euro's bounce nudged the dollar index down from a six-week high of 80.930 hit in Asia. It last stood at 80.586, down 0.15 percent on the day.
The dollar had risen in Asia after comments from Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Richard Fisher. Speaking at a conference of business economists in Sydney, Fisher said he was concerned that corporate credit spreads have narrowed too much and added that he does not see the Fed's balance sheet rising to $6 trillion or more.
The Australian dollar edged higher, supported by stronger than expected retail sales. It rose 0.7 percent to $0.9505 , edging away from Friday's three-week low of $0.9421.


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Serving diverse learners' needs – Part 2 (Conclusions)
Last week, I posted a puzzler of sorts — an acquaintance Deb* had some issues with a two-day training she'd been compelled to attend at work. (Read that post here.)
Here are some ideas about how the instructional designer, the trainer, and the learner herself could have done things a little differently, lowering Deb's affective filter & increasing her engagement and learning.
First — on role plays in general
I love role plays — as an instructor and designer.
They give learners practice simulating a potentially real-life problem, and allow the facilitator to determine if the learners have achieved in-class objectives.
As a learner, I admit I am more resistant to role plays — out of shyness (not introversion) — but I am happy in the end to have had a chance to practice. I especially prefer role plays that I don't have to stand and perform.
- What if my relative comfort with role plays has to do with my natural extroversion? I don't need time to process mentally. I'm perfectly happy processing orally! Do instructors and designers tend to be extroverted? Are we a self-selected bunch of extroverts who design with ourselves in mind?
- Must role plays be scripted, or can they simply come with guidelines, rubrics, tips? — like, snippets of language suggestions or prompts? I think in the specific program that Deb attended, the scripts were probably trademarked and therefore meant to be used verbatim. Is it realistic to think she will actually memorize and repeat the scripts in real life?
In line with this last point, my friend and colleague Tracy Schiffmann commented:
Instead of scripts (although examples are always helpful, but perhaps they may have been used as just that, examples), the skills and concepts might have been taught through principles of effective communication.
This could have even been done through a Thiagi type "envelopes" framegrame in which teams study the principles on a handout, then generate relevant scenarios and then use the framegrame (along with the handouts and maybe a scoring guide for the use of the principles) to respond to the scenarios – a different one in each envelope.
A few rounds of this (in which teams write out their response and put it in the envelope without looking at other teams' responses) with the final round being an evaluation round of all responses in the envelope using a scoring guide, might have been more meaningful for folks.
It also allows for truly owning the communication principles as they are filtered through one's prior knowledge, culture, personality etc.
So what could have been done differently?
What could the trainer, designer and learner do differently next time?
What could the trainers have done to help Deb?
Given an established curriculum, what could the trainers have done to make Deb feel more comfortable?
To get more ideas, I consulted with several friends and with my husband —who is an introvert, a teacher, and (therefore) a participant in many work-sponsored in-service trainings. Here were his ideas for what the instructor could do to help Deb out:
- Create a safe environment from the get-go. Model a positive attitude, and clarify the reasons participants showed up today. It helps if they create their own goals for learning — especially if they don't know why their boss made them come.
- Time to process. Use a structure like "Think pair share" which offers everyone (including introverts) time to process on their own, time to process again in a chat with someone else, and then the opportunity to share more broadly, if they choose to do so.
- Ask learners to volunteer their participation. Don't insist that every participant take part in a role-play, or have any kind of public speaking role. It's not that learners have to "get over shyness" — it's that some learners need more time to think through their responses. Even teachers and public figures who speak regularly love to have time to prepare. If student participation is part of your scoring guide, find alternative ways for assessing participation, such as writing a reflection about the class (ex-post-facto).
- Give learners the right to pass. If an activity is structured so that each person in a group does have to speak, allow learners to pass. Circle back to them if they need more time to think of what they'd like to say.
- Keep it real. Don't pressure learners to say something they don't want to say, or to behave in way that's not reflective of who they are. A classroom should be a learning laboratory, not a first dinner with the in-laws — or a job interview — where everyone uses their most restrained behavior. Learners need room to struggle and grow — and be authentic.
- Listen for, and address, struggles you see in the classroom. Not all learners are going to pull you aside and let you know that they are struggling. Not all learners will resist vocally. Be on the lookout for uncomfortable body language — and listen in on group work to spot people who are having a harder time. Where necessary, take a struggling learner aside and discuss ways to modify the activity to suit their learning needs. Be prepared to listen — and don't try to be a psychotherapist. Invite them to participate — and accept it if they decline to do so. I admit this kind of side discussion is difficult if you have a large group of learners.
- Know thy learners! It's always a good idea to survey your learners ahead of time, as part of the registration process. My friend and colleague Erin Neff observes:
"The instructor could have also done a pre-course survey to get a sense of how best the students would learn so the instructor could target certain activities to that class. I assume the instructor does not have the luxury of polling the class in advance so the better option is to have several tricks in the bag and to be able to offer up those tricks to get at the learning objectives."
What could the instructional designers have done to help learners like Deb?
- Leave room for the learner's experience. When designing role plays, leave open the option for learners to come up with their own scenarios, and to paraphrase any script they're given. Offer (and define) key words and useful phrases, rather than dictating whole sentences. Tracy Schiffmann says:
"The adult learning literature demonstrates that participant-generated scenarios are better for not only engagement but also for transferability of learning to novel situations. Had participants been able to generate their own scenarios, the issue of relevance might have been better met."
- Let learners act on their strengths. When designing any kind of small group activity that includes a teach back or presentation, give the small groups a variety of roles — including roles that need to speak to the big group, and roles that do not (such as small group facilitator, recorder, flip chart writer, etc.)
- Offer more options! The course designer/developer might vary the learning activities during the two-day program. Erin Neff says:
"A better approach would have been to have options so the learners could select a way that would work for them. I also can't speak to the purpose of this strict script and what were the objectives of the class. Regardless, I am sure there were many people who experienced something similar as did Deb and shut down to learning at some point. No one wins in that case.
The instructional designer could have made the event more useful by having a variety of activities in which the learners had the opportunity to absorb the information effectively, whether they are introverted, extroverted, learn by doing, seeing, or hearing. It sounds like I expect a utopia but it is not impossible."
Finally, what can learners do to help themselves?
- Communicate your needs ahead of time. Ahead of the training, be in touch with the instructor, if possible, and let them know what your specific needs are. Ask them what type of activities the workshop will rely on, and ask them what the goals and outcomes of the course are. Try to figure out why you are going (if your boss asked you to go), what you're supposed to get out of the training, and come up with your own personal learning goals. Of course it would be nice if the trainer surveyed you and other participants ahead of time.
- Stay upbeat. If at all possible, maintain a positive attitude during the workshop.
- Communicate your needs during the training. If necessary, speak to the instructor during the workshop to let them know that you are struggling. Erin Neff says:
"Another idea could be to approach the instructor during a break to explain the challenges she was facing and that she was having a hard time learning the material in that environment."
Be as specific as possible: "I find that I am so anxious about the role plays, that I am not able to concentrate on the content of our course. Can you give me some options for participating in alternative ways. Can I take notes for my small group, for example, or paraphrase the script in my own words?"
That all said, it might be hard to speak up during a workshop especially if the trainer seems to have a rigid approach. Erin Neff continues:
"Considering that Deb is more introverted, with the need to think things over first before acting, and the fact that the workshop was set up with little flexibility, I am not sure if her speaking out would have made a difference. Perhaps rather than be thrown in to immediately taking a turn reading from the script, she could have watched others do it and then take her turn playing that same role. I get the sense that the instructor was not interested in deviation though so there might not have been time for that."
*Deb is not her real name. That said, I asked her permission to blog about this issue.


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Physical activity during pregnancy
It was once thought that exercise is unacceptable for a pregnant woman. Today all believe that exercise is not only useful, but necessary for future mothers and their babies during uncomplicated pregnancy. Physical exercise can help prevent the development of such unpleasant complications like incontinence and lower back pain, reduce the frequency of depressive moods, the probability of developing preeclampsia, improve control weight gain during pregnancy. It is assumed that the effect of physical activity is the activation of the parasympathetic division of the nervous system that leads to lower levels of cortisol – a stress hormone and to normalize blood
pressure. Exercise also increases the secretion of serotonin, reducing pain and frequency of depressive moods. There is evidence that regular exercise during pregnancy improves in the future the child's cognitive ability, i.e. the ability to learn.
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Exisit. Oxycise – breathing exercises
Become healthy, fit and beautiful will help breathing exercises. Enough to spend a day 15 minutes of your time and your waist, hips, legs, and the stomach will become slender, and the mood will improve for the whole day.
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It is a modern technique of weight loss and overall health improvement. It was developed by American Jill Johnson, who all his life struggled with being overweight: sitting on a diet, went to the gym and tried many
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The "Clube dos Jornalistas" – Club of Journalists - reported in the past July 2, the winners of the awards «Prémios Gazeta 2011». The prize Gazeta for Television was awarded by Amelia Moura Ramos with her work "The Nazi Tungsten", broadcast by SIC. This story evokes, with unpublished images and information, two villages in Arouca - Regoufe and Rio de Frades - where, during the 2nd World War, British and German, respectively, peacefully explored in nearby mines, the ore wanted by their own armies.
"The Nazi Tungsten" is a television report signed by the journalist Amelia Moura Ramos, with the image of Rafael Homem and edition of João Nunes.


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So without further ado, here are photos to make you drool (hopefully. I'm aiming for that anyway):
Ok, the first three photos were taken at the class with my iPad. I would take more, but I was more concerned with getting it done right. Plus, this isn't a cooking blog, so I don't think a step-by-step guide is necessary:
|Here they are fresh out of the oven! They're yet to be filled.
|The cream puffs!
|The eclairs!
|This is the only puff without a cookie cover. It's ok, you're still delicious!
|A close up of the eclair
|Most of my cream puffs have two flavours - caramel filling
on top of custard filling.
|The only custard-only puff. YOU'RE STILL DELICIOUS TO ME!
|THE PUFF. No, not a powerpuff. Just a delicious puff.
Incidentally, I have the recipe, if anyone's interested. The only thing is that it's all in Japanese. If you're interested, let me know!


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The 76-year-old was arrested during a dawn raid on his home in Bromley, south east London by officers from Scotland Yard's Operation Yewtree.
He was taken to a police station in south London where he was being questioned over allegations related to abuse associated with Savile and others.
He was later bailed by police to a date in February next year.
Mr Beston, who was known as Uncle Ted, during his time as a producer, worked with Savile during the 1960s and 1970s.
They were close friends and worked together on Savile's Travels, the Jimmy Savile Old Record Club and the Double Top Ten Show.
A spokesman for Scotland Yard said a man in his 70s had been arrested as part of the investigation but would not confirm his identity.
However detectives were yesterday searching Mr Beston's large detached house and were seen removing a laptop computer and other items from the property.
When a reporter asked one of the officers if it was possible to speak to the man who lived at the property, he replied: "He's not available to talk to you. You'll have to go through the press office."
A neighbour, who did not give his name, said: "I didn't see the police turn up this morning. I saw him (the arrested man) recently. He had been away for a while but he returned here about a month ago.
"He came to see me to apologise if we'd had journalists knocking on our door asking for him. He didn't say anything about why they wanted to speak to him."
Another neighbour who lives opposite said: "I saw the police arrive earlier but I haven't seen the chap who lives there this morning."
A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police said: "The man from London was arrested at 06.30hrs on suspicion of sexual offences and has been taken into custody at a south London police station.
"The individual falls under the strand of the investigation we have termed 'Savile and others'."
The arrest is the eighth as part of Operation Yewtree which was launched in the wake of hundreds of allegations made against Savile following a television documentary featuring some of his victims.
Other high-profile names include former pop star Gary Glitter, comedian Freddie Starr and publicist Max Clifford.
On Monday, Starr and Clifford were re-bailed to return on dates in February and March pending further inquiries.
Glitter, whose real is Paul Gadd, and television producer Wilfred De'Ath - were previously re-bailed to dates in February.
Last week police said a total of 31 allegations of rape have been made against Savile so far.
Some 589 people have come forward with information relating to the scandal, with a total of 450 complaints against the BBC presenter and DJ himself, mainly alleging sexual abuse, Scotland Yard said.
Ten weeks after the launch of Operation Yewtree, police have recorded 199 crimes in 17 force areas in which Savile is a suspect, with 31 allegations of rape recorded against him in seven force areas.
Officers are looking at three strands within their inquiry: claims against Savile, those against Savile and others, and those against others.
Police and the NSPCC are compiling a report, which it is hoped will be published in the New Year, to provide an overview of Savile's activities.


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Great power politics means greater dangers
March 2018
Macron and May: France opposes UK involvement in EU defence (©Stefan Rousseau — WPA Pool / Getty Images)
January always brings a glitzy but ultimately vacuous public contribution to geopolitics. The World Economic Forum in Davos is where the great, the good and the not so good party and pontificate, free from the burden of any policy implications. It is entirely in keeping with Donald Trump's temperament that he gave the keynote speech, yet failed to grapple with the biggest strategic reassessment by the US since the end of the Cold War. The previous month Trump's National Security Strategy had proclaimed the return of great power competition. This was swiftly followed by Jim Mattis's National Defence Strategy, which elevated competition with Russia and China as the predominant strategic threat to US security. This sudden shift in focus was a long overdue acknowledgement of reality. The Economist immediately made "The Next War" its cover story. However, General Paul Selva, vice-chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, acknowledged, "We should have recognised [this threat] ten years ago." In these pages as far back as 2014, when Crimea was annexed, we have stated that great power conflict had returned. The majority of opinion was dismissive of this view, naively underestimating Vladimir Putin's durability and ambition. Trump's continued failure to publicly acknowledge the threat to Western democracy from Russian interference leaves both the United States and his own presidency vulnerable.
The world as viewed from the White House and the Pentagon has changed dramatically since 2014, when the NDS's predecessor, the Quadrennial Defence Review, was published. Obama's 2015 National Security Strategy and the last Quadrennial Defence Review both explicitly mentioned the UK, effectively placing her first amongst the European Nato members. Trump's NSS only mentions the UK (or indeed any European country) as sources of domestic terrorism and the UK, also as a trade partner. The NDS doesn't mention the UK at all, at least in the unclassified summary.
Unlike Davos, the Munich Security Conference in February is where defence ministers meet and policy is announced. This year's agenda was marked by relief that Trump's first year was not as catastrophic as many expected, as well as the ongoing issue of Brexit. Discussion of America's reappraisal of the balance of power and its European impact was strangely muted. Instead, Theresa May outlined a post-Brexit security bargain with Europe. In it, she continued to prioritise anti-terrorism over defence and in so doing she offered a solution to yesterday's problem. She all but ignored the fact that America's new strategic focus will redirect Nato's priorities towards great power conflict. The defence bargain she outlined reversed long-standing UK objections by offering to support and work with a more integrated EU military, in return for continued decision-making and participation in joint procurement. Although seemingly pragmatic and potentially a great deal for the UK, May's offer assumes that the UK military remains such an attractive partner as to be able to dictate terms. In reality it received a low-key response due to the precedence it would set, not to mention profound uncertainty about Britain's ability to maintain military credibility, despite meeting Nato spending targets.
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La baule, Nantes, a good choice to live? (Paris)
HI everyone,
I will be moving soon to Nantes area, but not sure where yet.
I speak fluent French, and will need to drive in West France a lot for my job and also a lot around Nantes.
Please give me your suggestions, keeping in mind these:
- I LOVE the coast, the beach (to calm me down on days that I"m home, as I"ll travel a lot).
- I need good highway access, so after lots of searches, I thought of La Baule
-Is it nice all year long, lots of locals ,but not ''dead boring in winter.?
- are there gyms and supermarkets and shops?
But where in La Baule would you recommend me?
I"m 38 and still single,and I am very social, but not a party type and I really don't like city centres.
Oh, and a last question:
Is it true that I wont find a furnished appartment? It seems not common in France, but I would prefer this though.
Thank you for suggestions and comments