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Mathews: Gun rights talk amounts to paranoia
Re: "Don't bid a farewell to arms," by Guy Pacot, letters, Jan. 4
Guy Pacot's paranoid ramblings on gun control gives us all a window into the gun advocates way of justifying yet another tragedy brought to us by unhindered military grade weapons with high-capacity magazines. Take a long, hard look at yourself America. Is this what we want? The ability to pump round after round of lead into 7-year-old children? Fire hundreds of bullets in to moviegoers? Way to be on the wrong side of an issue. Where is the rationality? No, we will never rid our country of firearms but we can limit who can possess them and what type of weapons they are. To argue that a civilian needs to own any gun that is designed specifically for combat is madness. It seems people like Mr. Pacot here believe that somehow the Second Amendment has no limitations unlike the rest. Yes, I am having trouble with the neighbors so my solution to this problem is to plant a 105 mm artillery piece on my lawn because I can! Let the justice rain down! This paranoid disorder is shown clearly when people think the UN is coming after them for their beloved assault rifles. What? Government coming for you? Ready to take on F-17 fighter jets, drones and a standing army of 1,430,895 personnel with a majority being kids? Yeah, our kids. The ones that didn't get shot dead before graduating kindergarten. It seems also that Mr. Pacot lives in the detroitus of Frisco. Scary place?..for being safer than 98.7 of all American cities. Paranoid much?
There is no rationality in arguing that if a kid picks up a rock on the playground and throws it at another child we should then give all the kids rocks? Bring that NRA crazy talk! Grow up America.
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Posted 06 November 2012 - 10:59 PM
UPDATE: Final list of armor emblems.
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Surprisingly Air Assault, EOD, EVA, Gungnir, and Recon look better in this game than the previous ones. It's just a bunch of their new models are horrific.
Using Air Assault at the moment but I do like the Enforcer, EVA and Stalker armour sets.
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Completing specific challenges, for one. I also got three of them for doing those codes that Ivan posted in the other thread.
How do you get the ones in the 'other' category?
Posted 12 November 2012 - 07:52 AM
I noticed that there are still some missing from this list so it could still be around somehow. When I was at PAX I noticed a long list of animal emblems, like the shark for example that they use for red team when you start the game. There was definitely a sting-ray and a trex which I remember.
Looks like the eagle on the shield I've used since Halo 2 is gone. Bummer.
Posted 29 November 2012 - 07:49 AM
A lot of people have been wondering when / how you unlock each armor set, and have been asking for a list. The game only shows you locked armor when you're already making progress, there are many, many more armor pieces in the game than you can see. I've been searching the internet and have yet to find anything close to a compiled list... So how about we come together and make one? (FAQs after the list!)
Recruit : Starting Armor
Warrior : Reach the Rank of SR-8
Air Assault : Reach the Rank of SR-11
Soldier : Reach the Rank of SR-15
Aviator : Reach the Rank of SR-17
Defender : Reach the Rank of SR-21
Recon : Reach the Rank of SR-26
EVA : Reach the Rank of SR-27
Warmaster : Reach the Rank of SR-37
Scout : Reach the Rank of SR-38
Orbital : Reach the Rank of SR-41
Infiltrator : Reach the Rank of SR-42
Hazop : Reach the Rank of SR-43
EOD : Reach the Rank of SR-45
Oceanic : Reach the Rank of SR-47
Enforcer : Reach the Rank of SR-50
Mark VI: Legendary Commendation : Complete the campaign on Legendary (Solo or Co-op) [See FAQs]
Commando : Dominion Victory Master
Gungnir : Slayer Victory Master
C.I.O. : Spartan Slayer Master
Ranger : Combat Opportunity Master
Venator : Assassin Master
Vanguard : Forerunner Enemy Mastery
Protector : UNSC Loadout Master
E.V.A. BRCH : Hail of Death Master
Infiltrator TRAC : Multikill Master
Defender CTRL : Bullet in the Brain Master
Soldier ZNTH : Spartan Spree Master
Recon Surge : Covenant Loadout Mastery
Warrior Matrix : Forerunner Loadout Mastery
Enforcer Tribal : Turret Mastery
Protector Drift : Weapon Mastery
Orbital AEON : Covenant Destroyer
Aviator Bond : Wheelman Mastery
Air Assault Verg : Vehicle Mastery
Soldier Zenith : Spartan Spree Mastery
Ranger STRK : Protector Mastery
EOD Shadow : Hail to the king Mastery
Vanguard Converge : Flag Victory Mastery
Scout APEX : Oddball Victory Mastery
Commando FRCT : Flood Victory Mastery
Contoured arms CHVR : Perfection Mastery
Recruit Legs Tiger : Exterminator Mastery
Twin-Plated AEON : Close Quarters Mastery
Contoured leg CHVR : Payback Mastery
Raider: Halo Waypoint Classified Unlock
Strider : War Games Map Pass or Limited Edition Halo 4
Scanner : War Games Map Pass or Limited Edition Halo 4
Recruit PRIME : Limited Edition Halo 4
FOTUS: Limited Edition Halo Xbox
Hazop FRST: Pre-order from Gamestop
Vernator Raptor : Pre-order from BestBuy / Mighty Ape
Oceanic CIRCUIT : Pre-order from Walmart
C.I.O. WEB : Pre-order from Amazon
Gungnir Pulse : Pre-order from MS Store / Mighty Ape
Deadeye : Pre-order from BestBuy / Play.com
Locus : Pre-order from Future Shop / Mighty Ape or Play Mountain Dew King of the Hill iPhone app game
Wetwork: Specialization
Pioneer: Specialization
Engineer: Specialization
Tracker: Specialization
Rogue: Specialization
Stalker: Specialization
Pathfinder: Specialization
Operator: Specialization
Visor Recruit (Blue) - Starting
Visor Blindside (Dark Red) - Earn the Commendation Avenger Master
Visor Cyan (Light Blue)- Earn the Commendation From the Brink Master
Visor Frost (White) - Reach the Rank of SR-29
Visor Legendary (Gold) - Complete the campaign on Legendary (Solo or Co-op)
Visor Midnight (Black) - Reach the Rank of SR-46
Visor Solar (Red) - Reach the Rank of SR-20
Visor Verdant (Green) - Earn the Commendation Splatter Master
Visor Sunspot (Purple & Blue) - Earn the Commendation Assistant Master
Additionally each Specialization unlocks a special visor, usually two-tone
Recruit - Starting
Heroic - Reach the Rank of SR-10
Assassin - Reach the Rank of SR-32
Last Stand - Reach the Rank of SR-50
Breach - Earn the Commendation UNSC Weapons Master
Standoff - Earn the Commendation Covenant Ordnance Mastery
Believe - Earn the Commendation Forerunner Ordnance Mastery
Assault - Earn the Commendation First Strike Master
EDIT: Frequently Asked Questions (Moved from top)
Why make this list?
The game itself doesn't tell you how to get these armor pieces until you're already making progress. If you have a piece that you really want, it can be frustrating to just level and hope you stumble into it. Finding out that a specific commendation is what you should work on lets you focus on getting that piece.
Specializations are unlocked when you reach max level (50). Then you pick one, and level it up to 10. When you finish it, you unlock the associated bonuses, and get to pick a new one to work on. They're Halo's "prestige" system, more or less. Leveling it unlocks the armor pieces as you go. Each specialization unlocks an armor set, a skin for that armor, a weapon skin, a custom visor color, and the specialization ability. These are loadout abilities which are very good and can only be acquired by leveling your specializations. Normally you only start with 2 specs available, and it is uncertain how you will access the others. People who purchased the LE or play Halo 4 before the end of November will have access to all specializations as soon as they hit 50.
I didn't get the Mark VI unlock even though I bet the game on Legendary! What gives?!
Some people have complained they beat the game and didn't unlock this. Check your Legendary Commendation. The servers were probably down and you probably missed credit for 1 or 2 levels, you'll just need to do those again. Sorry.
Confirmed : You can get the Mark VI if you complete some missions solo and some co-op.
How do I switch between different skins?
Alternative "skin" patterns for weapons and armor are treated as seperate items which perform the exact same as the normal items. For example, the arctic BR works just like a normal BR. You will have 2 BRs in your inventory to choose from for your loadouts. You can get a skin for a weapon you haven't unlocked yet (they're seperate weapons) such as getting the Hazop FRST as soon as you enter a preorder code, but you still have to unlock the regular Hazop seperately. After doing so, you will have both available as options. Anything with FRST or AEON after it is a skin.
How do I unlock the Chest piece / Shoulder piece?
Most of these will unlock a helmet, both shoulders, and the chest at the same time. (Most helms have matching chest and shoulders). Legs and arms are separate unlocks not tied to the helmet/shoulder/chest set.
How do I get X Master Commendation?
Commendations can be viewed and tracked from the player menu where you can choose your loadout and armor, go up and view your commendations, it should be in the middle. Each one when completed will unlock the next rank of the same commendation, and Master is the final rank for each.
Is this everything?
Probably not. There's at least a few skins not on this list, and a several arms and legs aren't on the list. Furthermore, nobody can get all the achievements since some depend upon having future Spartan Ops missions not currently available. So there could be some kind of Hayabsa or Mark V, but try not to get your hopes up too much. These are all the same sets that were shown off before the game was released.
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Conn. radio operators ham it up
GROTON -- The great equalizer isn't death, according to Larry Garvin. It's ham radio.
The hobby, he explains, is a level playing field. An amateur radio operator could be 6 years old; the oldest operate until the day they die.
In ham circles, you can know someone for a year before you know what they do for a living, says Garvin, an active member of the area's biggest ham radio group, the Tri-City Amateur Radio Club.
"That's not who you are," he says. "It's ... you're a ham, period."
Amateur radio is both a hobby and, even today, an emergency management tool. Licensed operators use certain frequencies to communicate among themselves and with relief organizations during a crisis.
The region has three ham radio clubs -- Tri City, Radio Amateur Society of Norwich and the Southeastern Connecticut Radio Amateur Radio System -- with nearly 200 members, all unflinchingly proud of the hobby they often wear literally on their sleeves -- and on their hats, shirts and vanity plates. Operators' call signs -- the series of letters and numbers used as ID, the same as on any American radio station -- are a favorite for this kind of display.
On a Sunday morning in June, Garvin is the first to arrive at the Submarine Force Museum. The Navy veteran once served on the Nautilus, now permanently docked just yards away. His blue eyes match his trucker hat, which can't contain several tufts of white hair.
It's the second day of Museum Ships Weekend, an event headed by the Battleship New Jersey in Camden, N.J., during which hams on more than 100 restored military ships race to contact each other by radio. It's a smaller-scale version of the American Radio Relay League's annual Field Day in late June, the most popular on-air event, according to the league website, when more than 35,000 hams gather in remote locations for a 24-hour radio call marathon.
Camped out here in the parking lot beside a fully equipped, 16-foot, orange trailer, a dozen or so hams will try to pin down 15 other ships to get their certificate. They'll have to submit their call logs to the battleship by July 30 to get credit.
But that might not be the right way to phrase it.
"Credit's a strong word," Garvin says.
Hams pride themselves on extensive QSL card collections -- QSL is code for confirming receipt of a radio transmission -- as proof of communication between two hams, often personalized on homemade, colorful postcards. But Garvin says events like these serve two purposes: camaraderie and honing skills for emergencies. There's much more "rag-chewing" -- casual conversation -- than actual competition.
"When hams get together," says Darryl DelGrosso, wearing a bucket hat filled with pins from Field Days past, "we like to talk."
DelGrosso, North Stonington's perennially suspender-clad tax assessor, who administers local amateur radio license exams, built his first radio in the 1960s. It had three frequencies, three crystals for $5 each and a tube transmitter for $21.
Has he contacted all 50 states?
"Of course," he says. "I can do all the states in one weekend."
DelGrosso suspects there isn't a country he hasn't talked to. Maybe some Pacific Island nations. "I like to play," he offers.
It's a lifestyle that comes with its own set of jargon. A radio is a rig. Hams refer to each other by their call signs. "Elmering" is hams helping out other hams.
Amateur operators must be licensed by the Federal Communications Commission. After successfully passing an exam, an operator is authorized to use radios for regular and emergency communications, to experiment with different kinds of radios and frequencies and to bolster radio use among the public.
A small handheld radio can cost as little as $50, though the higher-end ones -- the radios of a ham's dreams -- can cost up to $15,000.
The exam identifies level of expertise. An entry-level ham is a "technician," an intermediate is "general" class and the highest is called an "extra."
It's sort of like buying a handgun, Garvin says.
"You can't just pick up a radio," he says.
But upon clearing that hurdle, a ham becomes part of a massive community -- the ARRL estimates 710,000 licensed hams in the U.S. and 3.6 million worldwide -- that comes together on the air, in clubs, at conventions and at "hamfests," or radio tag sales.
Garvin says a national convention in Hartford scheduled for July 2014 is expected to draw a crowd of 5,000 to 10,000. The big one is the Dayton (Ohio) Hamvention, held annually in May.
"Everyone says, before you die, you've got to go to Dayton," Garvin says.
For a ham, he says, nothing is more exciting than traveling to meet a longtime radio contact. They'll take photos, talk kids, grandkids, houses -- not just their beloved hobby.
"It's human relationships that can last a lifetime," he says. "And it doesn't necessarily have to be the guy down the street or around the corner. It can be someone on the other side of the world."
Ham radio seems like a bit of a boys' club at first glance, with the attendant humor. The jokes abound: "ham shacks," the equipment-packed dens where hams operate, are "where your wife lets you keep your radios." A ham with a particularly pricey rig is almost certainly a bachelor, they say. And when a woman's voice comes crackling through the transceiver, she is gleefully referred to in shorthand as a "YL" -- a "young lady." (A wife is "XYL.")
Sean Kutzko, the ARRL's media and public relations manager, says the predominant demographic of older white men stems back to when radio was the cutting-edge technology in the 1950s and '60s, when young men rushed out to get their licenses. A spike in the last decade among the 16- to 35-year-olds seems to be based on the do-it-yourself and "maker" movement -- people interested in electronics experimenting, learning about physics and, he says, "just because it's cool."
Women still make up a measly 4 percent of hams, he says. But they're working on it.
Garvin, who lives in Lisbon, began taking classes while working as an information technology executive at General Electric. He retired after 30 years in 1998 and became a "serious" ham.
There is plenty of reason to take the hobby seriously -- times when this old communications technology isn't a relic, but a necessity. At races, civic events and parades, hams are stationed in tents and along the sidelines, reporting injuries and supply requests, maybe coordinating a ride for an exhausted marathoner. During Superstorm Sandy, hams worked with the Red Cross to report shelter conditions.
"It's not the best form of communication in this day and age," says Harry Solt of Gales Ferry, a retired Navy submariner participating in the ships event with his son, Michael, a network engineer who lives in Andover, Mass. Michael volunteered during the Boston Marathon.
But when the cable is out and the cell towers are overcrowded in a crisis, Solt says, "Radio is often the only one you have."
At five minutes to 9, the ARRL flag is hoisted above the trailer at the Nautilus parking lot.
The first crackles of static sound just before 9:30 a.m., along with some squeaky science-fiction noises as the operators cycle through the frequencies, spinning dials.
DelGrosso is the trustee for the call sign of the day: N1S, for "nuclear 1 submarine," used on all of the radios there.
Ken Rutt, 45, of Brooklyn is working his own radio, wearing his headset, his laptop logging every radio call.
"This is November one Sierra calling, CQ, 20 and listening," he says.
A voice crackles through -- Roger from North Carolina.
Then it's one after another. Some a low, unintelligible rasp, like being on a bad cell connection -- "I lost you in the noise there" -- and with others, it's as though the operator were standing right next to you.
"Ted or Ed?" Rutt asks one operator.
Then, swinging back up north, the call is from Rob in Michigan, November 8 Delta.
"I appreciate the contact," Rutt tells him. "Thank you so much."
Rutt passes off his headset to Solt, who used to build radios with his father in the 1950s. He can still rattle off his father's call signal, K3LBD, and calls him a "silent key" -- the title reverently given to dead hams, taken from the term for Morse code switching devices.
"It allows us to keep in touch in a unique way," he says.
When the day is halfway done, they have been joined by about a dozen more hams -- including Buzz Page, 71, a former toolmaker and machinist for Electric Boat who lives in Groton; Mike Tucker, 68, of Montville, TriCity's president and a retired radio frequency technician; and Sal Vella, 69, of Gales Ferry, also a former EB employee.
Vella says one day he was simply fed up with paying for cable and began doing research on antennas. His newfound hobby, he says, was all Comcast's fault. Now he keeps in touch with a scientist stationed at the South Pole.
In the trailer, the younger Solt settles on the 18.130 frequency, honing in on November 5 Echo in Galveston, Texas, a ship. Clear as a bell here, but at the other end Solt's voice fades in and out.
Finally, success: the voice of a woman named Lynn, stationed on the USS Cobia in Wisconsin.
"This is the USS Nautilus, America's first nuclear submarine and first submarine to the North Pole," Solt says.
"That is excellent," Lynn replies. She advises him that another ship is "right on top of us."
The conversation wraps up; Solt offers a typical ham phrase as a signoff.
"We'll catch you later down the log," he says.
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Alan Furst, whose papers reside at the Ransom Center, has added a new novel to his list of historical espionage tales set in pre-World War II Europe. Mission to Paris (Random House) follows the story of Hollywood film star Fredric Stahl who travels to Paris in 1938 to make a movie and participate in an informal spy service being run out of the American embassy in Paris.
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Yes, I had the Motor or Autocar report on that event once and remember from reading it that LNER laid on extra trains from Hatfield for the spectators, and it was noted that quite a few doctors (who did have some petrol) had called by when on their rounds. Hire car operators had some fuel too, and there seemed to be more of those than normal (they'd have been hired with driver so people clubbed together to hire one to go to Luton Hoo). There were also rather more policement than normal which was rather sad.
Interesting piece in latest Bugantics Spring 2012 about the problems of the March 1948 speed event at Luton Hoo after the post war basic petrol ration (c 90 miles per month) had been terminated (ie so there was no private fuel) in late 1947
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I love my kids. They are my whole life. But dude- sometimes I wonder what it would be like to have a life outside of my kids... And why is it that when we start to envision that could-have been life, do we feel so bad about ourselves? It's not that we want that could-have been life everyday! I'd just like to have the opportunity to do that other life maybe one day a month (okay, every week) just to do something different! We shouldn't feel guilty about that but we do! (I say we, because I think that maybe you do the same thing, but hell- maybe it is just me!) Why in the world do we do this to ourselves? I thought about this all day. And do you want to know what I came up with? (Sure you do!) It is because there is always that crazy mega mom out there who will one up you and make you feel like crap about yourself. Come on- you know the mom... The one who only packs her kids organic, gourmet food for lunch. Who manages to be the president of the PTO, the leader of the Girl Scout Troop, and every charity board in between. Her kids know Mandarin when they are like, 3 years old. Her van doesn't even have one crunched up goldfish cracker on the floorboard. She always has her hair and makeup done and she somehow miraculously fits into her size 2 jeans without the aid of a girdle, and she does it all with a SMILE! Does anyone else want to slap this mom?
So today- I'm keepin' it real. We're all moms (except maybe the 2 or 3 men who actually read this blog) and we're all probably insecure about something. We always look at the next mom over and wonder how in the world she keeps it all together. And instead of thinking, "Good for her- she's pulling it off!" we take it as a personal attack on our own inability to keep all those balls in the air.
Several people ask me how in the world I find time to blog and that I must be really efficient. People- it is a facade! I blog because if I don't, I feel like I will spontaneously combust. It is my connection to the adult world. My blog world doesn't include Dora, or reading homework, or boo-boos, or diapers or hundreds of loads of laundry. This is my daily self-care. When I sit here- I can just be... a grown-up. I don't have it all together. Sometimes I only brush my kids teeth once a day. They get generic lunchables full of calories and no nutritional value in their lunch everyday because that's how I roll. I yell sometimes. My kids wear hand-me-downs and have holes in their socks. I let my kids watch way to much TV and I am guilty of making everyone eat cereal or pancakes all to often for dinner because I am just too tired to actually plan out anything better. And you know what? It's okay! We all love each other about 94% of the time in this house and I think that's pretty darn good!
So to those moms out there who "pretend" to have it all together: stop making the rest of us feel bad! In honor of the rest of you- I'm airing my dirty laundry, quite literally. Because just as that supermom makes us all feel like crap, I think seeing someone else's insecurities makes us feel a little bit better, even though we hate to admit it! I wish that these pictures were staged but unfortunately they're not. Here we go... (DEEP BREATH)
This is my laundry room. And sadly- I must confess that after Miles came home I got someone to come and help me once a week to keep up with the laundry and it is still this bad.
Even when all those hand-me-down kid clothes are hung up, they have to take up permanent residence in the laundry room because *gulp* my daughter's closet looks like this and I can't get to the clothing rack.
Did you readers in Switzerland and Australia and everywhere in between just hear my mother groan all the way from Kentucky? My aunts probably just said a great big collective, "Oh no she didn't!"
And here's my "office". It is a miracle that somehow all the bills get paid on time.(Thank you automatic bill pay!)
Now- lovies, do you feel better about yourself? I sure hope so. Now- go forth with good self-esteem!
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Learn about how to get accommodation when moving to Denmark
Housing in Aalborg
Denmark does not have a tradition for on-campus housing as they do in other parts of the world. UCN will do its best to help international students get ready for their stay in Aalborg. However, all incoming students are required to find their own accommodation.
Aalborg is a very popular destination for studying, and so it is important that you begin your search for accommodation as soon as you have decided to study in Denmark. The earlier you start your search, the higher the chances that you will find the right place for you.
Luckily, it is relatively easy to find housing in Aalborg. Prices are quite low compared to other big cities, e.g. Copenhagen. An average monthly rent varies between around EUR 270 and 470, depending on the area, the size of the room/flat, the facilities available and the general standard of the accommodation.
Apart from certain dormitories, most flats for rent in Denmark are offered unfurnished.
Housing guarantee
The Municipality of Aalborg offers students a temporary housing guarantee of three months, giving you time to find a place to live. To be covered by the housing guarantee, you must have registered with AKU-Aalborg, which assigns dormitories and youth housing.
Please check out their website! You will get information about how to apply, information about the housing guarantee and they also have an excellent FAQ.
Tips on finding accommodation
UCN co-operates with the dormitory UC House which offers spacious, furnished rooms in a social environment with table tennis and a pool table in the common room. It is common for students who have either not been offered or are not interested in a dormitory or youth housing to share a flat. After some time in Aalborg, a lot of our international students also decide to do this.
Housing possibilities
Learn about your housing possibilities in Denmark by viewing the list below. You can also look for housing elsewhere, e.g. Housing Anywhere and AirBnB.
We have learned that if e.g. 2 students register and apply together at AKU, then it is easier to receive an offer for 2 people sharing a flat. So this is something that you can think about and try to find another student with whom you can share a flat. If you do have any questions regarding this, please send an e-mail to email@example.com.
Students should expect to pay a deposit for renting a place, which they will get back at the end of renting provided that the place has been kept in good condition. Some places students are also requested to pay at least the first month's rent. Therefore do count on extra expenses the first month to get settled.
UCN has an agreement with UC House which is situated just opposite the largest shopping area in Aalborg with more than 100 shops, in an area called Skalborg. You will find everything you need here from supermarkets, banks, pharmacies, etc.
UC House is less than 2 kilometres from our department at Sofiendalsvej, approx. 4 kilometres from our department at Hobrovej and about 5 kilometres from the city centre. Several buses connect UC House to the city centre.
We offer refurbished, spacious rooms with beds, computer tables and lamps. The centre of the house is the main living room with direct access to a closed garden with barbeques. There are large sofas in the living room for hanging out with your friends or for watching TV on the big flat screen. There is also table tennis and pool tables.
Furthermore, there is free high‐speed wireless internet. You will find that there are laundry facilities with washing machines and tumble dryers (which you have to pay for). There are also fully fitted kitchens with a place to sit down and enjoy a home cooked meal.
Most rooms have the size of 20 m2 and have private toilets. Prices range from DKK 2400 to DKK 4200 for a single room. Interested in sharing a room? Please check out their website uchouse.dk in order to see the prices for sharing a room. Please note that there is also installed a fridge in all rooms.
Address: UC House, Nibevej 12, 9200 Aalborg SV, Denmark.
Website: uchouse.dk
If you do have any questions regarding UC House, please send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com.
If you get accommodation via a private landlord, and you are not sure if the rental agreement is OK or not, please contact the staff at the international office or send an e-mail to email@example.com. We are here to help you and we will look through the rental agreement in order to see if it looks OK or not. Unfortunately, there are some landlords who can be quite dishonest.


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03-31-2013, 04:28
Hi all, I am in the Syracuse area and looking for a / some like minded people to enjoy the area with. This is my first time hanging so, anyone with experience would be welcome to help out and teach a noobie. I am interested in an over nighter sometime soon as I want to try my gear out. Hopefully we can arrange something that works for everyone. Thanks


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Michelle Malkin Browses Colorado Marijuana Store
Michelle Malkin on her recent experience at a Colorado marijuana store:
For the past three months, my mother‐in‐law, Carole, whom I love with all my heart, has battled metastatic melanoma. After a harrowing week of hospitalization and radiation, she's at home now. A miraculous new combination of oral cancer drugs seems to have helped enormously with pain and possibly contained the disease's spread. But Carole's loss of appetite and nausea persist.
A month ago, with encouragement from all of her doctors here in Colorado, she applied for a state‐issued medical marijuana card. It still hasn't come through. As a clerk at Marisol Therapeutics told us, there's a huge backlog. But thanks to Amendment 64, the marijuana drug legalization act approved by voters in 2012, we were able to legally and safely circumvent the bureaucratic holdup. "A lot of people are in your same situation," the pot shop staffer told us. "We see it all the time, and we're glad we can help."
Our stash included 10 pre‐rolled joints, a "vape pen" and two containers of cheddar cheese‐flavored marijuana crackers (they were out of brownies). So far, just one cracker a day is yielding health benefits. Carole is eating better than she has in three months. For us, there's no greater joy than sharing the simple pleasure of gathering in the kitchen for a meal, with Grandma Carole at the head of the table.
Do I worry about the negative costs, abuses and cultural consequences of unbridled recreational pot use? Of course I do. But when you get past all the "Rocky Mountain High" jokes and look past all the cable‐news caricatures, the legalized marijuana entrepreneurs here in my adopted home state are just like any other entrepreneurs: securing capital, paying taxes, complying with a thicket of regulations, taking risks and providing goods and services that ordinary people want and need. Including our grateful family.
Read the whole thing.
Flashback: Ms. Malkin reviewed my book After Prohibition: An Adult Approach to Drug Policies in the 21st Century. Here's a snippet: "The war on drugs is an expensive quagmire that needlessly punishes people who've already punished themselves beyond repair."
For additional background, go here and here.


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Maybe they've been drinking. Maybe they're just arseholes. Whichever it is, these abusive text messages from major video game companies can at times be painfully unfunny, but at others - ahem, Capcom - be heart-breakingly on the money.
These were put together by IGN. We've got some of the better ones here, but the full collection is at the link below.


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YESsoccer thanks and congratulates the aspiring coaches who came from around the U.K. & Ireland last weekend to attend our fourth annual YEScoach ID event, where we added to our U.S. coaching team for the spring training season.
For the second year in a row, YESsoccer invited the standout candidates from months of recruitment to Aston Villa's Academy Building for a day of assessment and education.
Chris Andrew directs YESsoccer's Soccer In The Community affiliate for the Chicago Fire, and he led Sunday's event, looking to add to his staff for 2014. He noted the maturity and experience of the coaches on display:
"I was pleased to see young men and women that I would be proud to have on my team in Chicago. We get involved in communities, and we truly want to help clubs develop. So we're looking for real professionals, people who want to be much more than activity-leaders, people who want to make a career in soccer."
Matt Brown heads recruitment for YESsoccer and appreciates the willingness of experienced coaches to engage in what can be a rigorous selection process:
"I'm always particularly appreciative of coaches that have prior experience coaching in the U.S. submitting themselves to our recruitment process. It tells me that they will be teachable and will serve our partner clubs well. I've found that the most professional coaches are typically the most humble."
The outstanding candidates selected from the YEScoach ID event will have the privilege of serving in a variety of coaching roles within YESsoccer partner clubs across the U.S., including our Chicago Fire SITC affiliate.
To apply for a U.S. position in 2014 or beyond, please contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com to receive an application.
Follow us on Twitter @YESsoccer
Our YEScoach ID Team at Aston Villa
I've found that the most professional coaches are typically the most humble.
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It's a bird, It's a plane, no wait...it's Gir! I have some pretty cool lessons that I will be uploading today. To start things off here is "<,em>how to draw Superman Gir", step by step. Unlike some of the other Gir characters that I have uploaded, this one actually has a skin color which is green. This is probably the best Gir I have drawn thus far. I love the facial expression, the costume, and how comic book like it feels. I swear I could draw Gir dressed in all kinds of stuff all day, but I can't so I won't. Instead, I will go about my business and fulfill requests that people want and love. I think this will be a big hit, so have fun drawing Superman Gir. I shall return like always so try to stick around for more!. Adios people!
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