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mogmachine necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 96 diseños de 27 diseñadores freelance.
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mimo amp offers production services spanning all facets of film and video production from corporate information films to music videos, documentaries and animation.
mimo amp is based in London but has clients around the world including a number of large corporate clients and creative agencies.
mimo amp require a site redesign that allows their portfolio of video and services to be viewed from a single page that remains both minimal and timeless (we do not want to have to re-design in 1 year).
The following keywords describe what we are looking for:
light background, minimal, timeless, professional, clean, minimal, vivid, will last
corporate clients, creatives, those with an eye for design, but all who have come to see the site content primarily rather than be distracted by the interface.
People come to see the portfolio, to see the work that is relevant to them and their industry, therefore it is important to make all categories equally visible.
We are fed up of re-designing our site every year, so we want a site that will remain 'timeless' for a few years.
To achieve this we want something modern, minimalist but not over stylised.
The purpose of the site is to allow viewers to browse the portfolio which consists of video represented by thumbnails, split into 4 categories (corporate, documentary, music videos, animation).
Each thumbnail will have a fancy tooltip on rollover with a client logo and information, and upon clicking will launch an overlay video player (video player is not part of the competition).
The idea is to have everything accessible from a single page to avoid the user getting lost.
The page must contain the following elements:
- "mimo amp" logo (see attachement).
- space for thumbnails from 4 categories (corporate, documentary, music videos, animation). Each category may contain up to 20 thumbnails, however designs may/should include a scroller or slider to allow facilitate this.
Thumbnails MUST be contained within their category groups.
- there does NOT have to be a video player as this will be invoked in an overlay when clicking on a thumbnail
- the following short text description of the company:
"mimo amp offers production services spanning all facets of film and video production. Please have a look around our site and contact us to see what we can do for you!"
- an area for 3-5 news items (these will come from twitter, but do NOT have to look twitter branded)
- an area with contact details and a link to invoke a contact form (form will appear in overlay, no need to design).


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Daily Forecast for October 15th 2019
Tim Martin is a male celebrity.
He was born on Wednesday April 12th 1967, in Unknown.
October 15th 2019 carries financial reward for Tim Martin, possibly unexpected. It is a good day for him for promotional activities or sales.
Social gatherings may also bring Tim quality new connections.
Martin should avoid becoming involved in legal affairs today.
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Google completed its acquisition of YouTube today. TechCrunch reports that the final price included $15 million in cash. Based on the stock price at the end of closing today, the deal is worth 1.775 billion to YouTube's shareholders.
Now, what's next? Will Google be more restrictive? And if they do become more strict about YouTube uploading policies, will it drive away its core users?
And then there is all that litigation. I'd say that by no means does this mean that Google has the video sharing space sewn up.
On another front, Beet.tv has an interview with Hunter Walk, "a key executive at Google Video who had previously run Google's AdSense. " Walk says: "Part of the goal is to provide monetization strategies to content providers of all sizes." Good insights. Worth watching.
John Battelle wonders: "What's Up with Google, Video, and Ads?"
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This is a major question, and it's unanswered. Why, if I had nothing but time, I'd be digging into this, and deeply. The amount of rumors, speculation, and backstory that's crossed my desk – involving Hollywood agents, rising videoblogging stars, quarantined inventory on major tech sites, and the like – is enough to fuel at least a front page NYT story.


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Russians are reeling from the news of yet another deadly plane crash in a summer that's been littered with tragic airline accidents.
Wednesday's accident involved a small Yak-42 jet that blew up during take-off in the Volga city of Yaroslavl, killing at least 45 people, including most members of a Russian hockey team.
Russian news reports said the plane was carrying the whole roster of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, one of Russia's leading ice hockey teams that includes a Canadian coach, a Swedish goalie, players from Germany, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, and several former National Hockey League stars among its members.
They were on their way to the Belarussian capital of Minsk to play a season opening game for the newly created Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) when the aircraft reportedly plunged off the runway, hit a fence, and burst into flames.
President Dmitry Medvedev, who was due to take part in a political forum that opens in Yaroslavl Thursday, told journalists "there has been a terrible tragedy," and said he will visit the accident site immediately upon his arrival to honor the memory of the dead.
"Locomotiv was a wonderful international team, a leader in Russian hockey, they were all such talented people. It's such a blow," says Igor Larin, a reporter for the popular Moscow daily Sport Express. "Russia is a hockey-playing country, and Yaroslavl was the heart and soul of Russian hockey."
It's the latest in a string of high-profile aviation disasters that have called into question the basic safety of Russian airways, and deeply stung Russian national pride.
Just over a year ago, a Soviet-built Tupolev Tu-154 carrying Polish President Lech Kaczynski and nearly 100 leading Polish dignitaries crashed on landing near the central Russian city of Smolensk, stirring up tensions in Polish-Russian relations that have yet to subside.
A number of other summer crashes involving aging Soviet aircraft have rattled Russian nerves and led the government to order most Tu-134 and An-24 planes, the workhorses of Russian regional aviation, to be grounded early next year. The Yak-42, a late Soviet design, was not on the banned list and is considered to be a generally reliable aircraft.
Experts say that even when the shock of the tragedy has worn off, the toll on Russians' already frayed national pride is likely to be steep.
"Accidents like this have a profoundly depressing effect on everyone," says Sergei Mikheyev, director of the Center for Political Assessment, an independent Moscow think tank.
"It erodes belief in the system, implants doubt that infrastructure is functioning properly, generates anxieties," he says. "When planes fall from the sky because they cannot fly, it hits everybody in a deep way."
"Tragedies like this increase public tensions and discontent with the existing state of things," says Alexei Grazhdankin, deputy director of the Levada Center, and independent Moscow-based public opinion agency.
Mr. Grazhdankin notes that the last years of the USSR were marked by a chain of tragic accidents – Chernobyl, the sinking of the Admiral Nakhimov cruise liner, and a massive train crash in the republic of Bashkortistan – that darkened the public mood and eroded confidence in the Soviet system.
"It's hard to judge the influence of this string of terrible events on political confidence, and much will depend on the reaction of Russian leaders," he says. "Taken separately, each such event can be forgotten, but when they happen one after another like this, then the impression remains and grows into a vague public discontent. If it doesn't end, it might erupt in very unexpected ways."


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Although not the sleekest/most aero option available, these bars will carry anything you need at a great price.
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Picked these up for my Jeep and I was very happy with them. Not as quite as aero bars, but still can take the weight. Works great with any gear carrier. Easy to Install, looks great, would recommend.
Do what they are supposed to!
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These work great. Support my bike and ski racks, easy to install. Only downside is there is a decent amount of wind noise, but just crank up the tunes and you'll be fine
I love the Thule options for car racks. This design is superior to the Yakima stuff I believe because the bars are square and not round. A friend of mine has the Thule stacker on Yakima racks which are round and they shift a little bit. Very happy with my purchase.
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works good for my Toyota Tacoma!
They do what they're supposed to.
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Picked up these bars to carry skis on my previously naked roof, and they get the job done. They're not as quite as aero bars, but if you need to haul things on the roof of your car, look no further.
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These bars are definitely solid and can take a beating but they are loud at high speeds.
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Get these THU0064 and save some headaches or use some tennis balls if they over hang the side of your car. These have held up great!
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Great way to carry gear around on your roof. If you're looking for a low cost alternative to the Aero blades then you have found it.
This item is amazing would recommend it to any one. Great fit on the car and hold up everything well.
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I bought these bars for your run of the mill surf trips and general extra cargo space up top. I drive a 94 jeep cherokee and have had these racks for about 5 months and the fit with just about every cargo rack/basket rack set up. There very simple and easy to install, plus they are made in the great US of A so that's always a huge plus, love to support American workers and companies. These racks are well rounded, multipurpose across the board, and I know that they will serve you well. And who better to buy from the backcountry.com? Buy these racks and go have a good day in the outdoors.
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We have a Toyota Tacoma with a topper and have a Thule track system permanently installed. The square bars work with almost any gear carrier.
Here is the system for this specific setup:
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Great way to put anything on your roof
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It's no surprise that Thule cross bars are one of the best accessories you can put on any vehicle. You can haul anything you want knowing that it will be secured to you vehicle without damaging your roof. I did however discover that Thule crossbars no longer come with the end caps included. For those you will need to purchase item THU0064 for $9.95. These really complete the look of your rack but they won't come up in the Thule fit guide as they are considered an accessory, not a requirement. Here they are on my 2014 Tacoma.
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I"m a contractor and load these bars down with heavy ladders and they are fully bombproof. My last pair were pretty rusted inside the plastic coating after about 10 years of use and they were still super strong. I wouldn't trust any other load bars with my heavy equipment at 80 MPH on the freeway.
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I've had these parts on a honda civic, a grand cherokee and a wrangler. Doesn't matter what car, these bars will not only haul your bikes and skis, but they'll get your plywood home from home depot and they'll give you something to tie your christmas tree to. Highly recommended.
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I racked my 1999 Nissan Sentra and the 50" bars fit perfect and look very good on my little green car! I use these all the time with my Cargo Box, ski rack, kayak rack, hauling wood, and I through a bunch of stuff up there when I moved. My car is so small that it doesn't hold very much stuff so this rack lets me carry the things that don't fit in my trunck!
I have the 50"s on my jeep, they are crazy strong. I can easily stand in the middle of them and they don't bend. I'm 6' 170 lbs and it holds no problem. These will hold anything you can put on them.
I have a THULE ?Frontier? and I am looking...
I have a THULE �Frontier� and I am looking for the best roof rack bars with my Nissan Murano SE 2007 and I don't know which system would fit best... Can you help me?
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Four different bars are offered. What are...
Four different bars are offered. What are the differences?
They're different lengths.
Specifically, the numbers are the loadbar length in inches. There is a banner near the top of all the Thule pages on Backcountry.com for the Car Rack Configurator. You can use that to find out exactly what Thule products will work for your make/model/year of vehicle.
We bought a 2008 Chevy Equinox last year...
We bought a 2008 Chevy Equinox last year and it has luggage rails but no bars. Can I order the bars from you and how much would they be?
You would need to get the foot pack to attach the load bars to your factory roof rack. Go to www.huleracks.com or use the link on the top of this page to configure your vehicle... You've probably already figured out what you need though.
I don't know anything about load bars, but...
I don't know anything about load bars, but was looking for car top carriers for our road bikes. I guess this is where we would start as I don't have load bars on my car?
The easiest place to start is on the Thule website- http://www.thuleracks.com
You pick your car make, year, and model and choose the type of activities you need a rack for (ski, bike, kayak, etc).
From there, it will give you all the components you need for a complete set-up.
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can you cut the bars down to any size?
can you cut the bars down to any size?
I've done it several times for different cars. The best method is a Dermel tool with a cutting wheel. Use a face sheild, safety glasses, or googles!. Mark your bar, wrap masking tape around the bar at the mark to have a guide to follow, cut the bar. Use a utility knife to cut back to rubber so the end will accept an end cap. Viola!


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each person has his/her own idea of the feasts; sorry if some of our members are not like you
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each person has his/her own idea of the feasts; sorry if some of our members are not like you
I've never said I wanted anyone to be like me! And my message wasn't an personal attack on anyone.
A 'message' doesn't have to be a message on a forum, and it wasn't in my case.
The reason I wrote it because to me it sounds like you should help people in December, (which is important, I know that, I'm not that stupid) but it also sounds that it's not so important the 11 other months.
I did think before I wrote it, in case if somebody doubts it.
Gail, tell me if you got hurt anyway and I will apologize.
Yes! I know exactly what you mean.Sunich wrote:nevertheless, xmas tree means a lot to me personally 'cause it reminds me of what new year and xmas used to mean to me when i was a lil' kid. it's like finding some ol' toy in some closet. you know, bringing memories back...
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WASHINGTON D.C., November 20, 2014 – SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK), a global leader in flash storage solutions, today announced that Dr. Eli Harari, co-founder, and retired chairman and chief executive officer of SanDisk, was awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation by the National Science Foundation for his significant contributions towards the development and proliferation of flash memory.
The award represents the nation's highest honor for advancing science and technology by recognizing those who have made lasting contributions that have created a greater understanding of the world and improved the lives of many. U.S. President Barack Obama conferred the medal at a ceremony held today at the White House, which was attended by leading dignitaries and other medal laureates.
Dr. Harari co-founded SanDisk more that 25 years ago with the vision of using flash memory to store data in mobile products. Flash memory – an ideal storage medium due to its small size, ruggedness and low power consumption – has since become ubiquitous in mobile devices, and is now found in digital cameras, smartphones, tablets, thin-and-light laptops and other portable products. Flash memory is also increasingly transforming datacenters, enabling them to accelerate the processing and analysis of vast and growing amounts of data, thereby helping to make social media, online media-streaming, real-time business analytics and other industries both possible and feasible.
"I am proud to congratulate my fellow SanDisk co-founder and friend, Eli, on this tremendous achievement," said Sanjay Mehrotra, co-founder, president and chief executive officer of SanDisk. "The flash memory technologies he helped to pioneer have had a profound impact on the entire technology landscape, firmly establishing SanDisk as a global leader and connecting us in ways we never thought possible. His lifelong intellectual and technical achievements are well-deserving of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation."
"Dr. Harari's pioneering work both as engineer and co-founder of SanDisk was fundamental to establishing the practicality, reliability, manufacturability and endurance of flash memory, which today is widely considered to be one of the most important core technologies in the technology industry," said Tim Bajarin, founder and president, Creative Strategies. "Flash memory has enabled many companies such as Apple and others to offer breakthrough products that have changed the lives of people around the world. For many enterprise companies, their data is their business and flash memory can help companies such as Google, Facebook, Alibaba, Amazon and many others to access and analyze this massive amount of data."
Throughout the years, SanDisk has garnered the reputation as one of the most trusted brands for its innovations such as:
Fueled by the company's vertical integration and strategic acquisitions of companies like FlashSoft, Schooner Information Technology, Pliant Technology, SMART Technologies, and Fusion-io, SanDisk has in recent years focused on transforming the enterprise market with flash memory technology. SanDisk, which today offers the broadest flash memory solution portfolio for the enterprise, is paving the way for faster data processing, enabling better business intelligence, reducing the datacenter footprint, and continuing to bring their customers high-quality reliable solutions.
SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK), a Fortune 500 and S&P 500 company, is a global leader in flash storage solutions. For more than 26 years, SanDisk has expanded the possibilities of storage, providing trusted and innovative products that have transformed the electronics industry. Today, SanDisk's quality, state-of-the-art solutions are at the heart of many of the world's largest data centers, and embedded in advanced smartphones, tablets and PCs. SanDisk's consumer products are available at hundreds of thousands of retail stores worldwide. For more information, visit www.sandisk.com.
© 2014 SanDisk Corporation. All rights reserved. SanDisk is a trademark of SanDisk Corporation, registered in the United States and other countries. iXpand is a trademark of SanDisk Corporation. iPad, iPhone, iPad, iPad mini and iPad Air are trademarks of Apple Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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The Plymouth State University dance curriculum and concert series reflect the importance of combining technical learning in the classroom with performance opportunities. The driving force of the Plymouth dance program is to educate through various dance disciplines and to present dance as a universal art form for all students.The 16-credit minor in dance provides an introduction to dance as an art form as well as experience in movement. Dance students develop artistry through the study of dance history, choreography and participation in the Contemporary Dance Ensemble.
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Early India: From the Origins to AD 1300
University of California Press, 2004 - History - 555 pages
"Romila Thapar is the most eminent Indian historian. This superb book is not only the basic history of how India came to be and an introduction to how the writing of history takes shape, but also, not the least, a deconstruction of the historical myth and inventions on which is based the present intolerant and exclusivist Hindu nationalism. It is essential reading today."—Eric Hobsbawm
"One of the world's most eminent historians of India, Thapar gives us a thoroughly revised edition of her authoritative general history. This one contains the accumulated research of the last thirty years and includes richly textured accounts of life in ancient India. Like its predecessor, this is indispensable reading for anyone interested in India's long and complex history."—Thomas R. Metcalf, Professor of History and Sarah Kailath Professor of Indian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, and co-author of A Concise History of India
"Incorporating newer findings, methods, and interpretations, this thorough and outstandingly written addition to the author's highly acclaimed History of India, Volume One manifests her long and distinguished service to the study of Indian history. Thapar's skillful analysis of how India's past has been interpreted not only brings greater clarity to the understanding of contemporary India, but also contributes usefully to a broader study of history and historiography."—Peter L. Schmitthenner, Associate Professor of History, Virginia Tech
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Rather than a heavy, fried falafel, here's a lighter version of the pocket sandwich: a chickpea patty served in a whole-wheat pita with a flavorful and lower-in-fat tahini sauce. Make it a Meal: Serve with a tomato-&-feta salad or Parsley Tabbouleh. Wash it down with an organic Wit Bier from Wolaver's.
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When you've been cutting hair, shaving whiskers and shooting the breeze with customers for 64 years in the same Main Street barbershop, you must have acquired some wisdom — besides knowing the muscles, bones and arteries of a head, or how to cut everything from a crew cut to a mohawk.
When you've been cutting hair, shaving whiskers and shooting the breeze with customers for 64 years in the same Main Street barbershop, you must have acquired some wisdom — besides knowing the muscles, bones and arteries of a head, or how to cut everything from a crew cut to a mohawk.
So sure, Narrowsburg's Charlie Knapp, 83, who retired from barbering a few weeks ago, can tell you how this Delaware River hamlet with art galleries, antique shops and restaurants has changed since he started cutting hair in 1948. That's when Studebakers drove on a Main Street lined with grocery stores like A&P, families owned a few cows or chickens, and haircuts cost 35 cents.
But to hear how — and why — people have changed since he took over the western Sullivan County business from his dad, who started it in 1911, you should sit a spell with Knapp near the red-leather barber chair with built-in ashtrays made by Koken, the last American manufacturer of those chairs. Listen as he clears out his shop with the dusty model propeller planes, fighter jets and biplanes hanging overhead and a Rep. Ben Gilman campaign sponge in the drawer. Charlie Knapp's barbershop might be a thing of the past, but his words are as relevant as ever:
"Every one is so uptight today," he says. "Whether it's about the government, the economy, whatever."
Knapp, who also served on the Tusten Town Board for a total of some 30 years and is still a member of the Narrowsburg Fire Department, blames it on the almighty dollar.
"There's so much pressure to have money and get things," he says — particularly on young folks, who, he says, feel like they just have to have it all — "a house, appliances, computers."
Once upon a time, folks worked and worked to buy a house, he says. So you couldn't spend all your money at once.
No matter how much you made, you had to put some aside to save.
That's how you bought things.
And now?
"If you don't have the money, you just put it on your credit card," he says.
Bottom line?
"Credit is ruining this country," Charlie Knapp says. "Buy now, pay later. It just doesn't work."
Maybe that's why the one thing that hasn't changed much in this hamlet with restaurants that now serve dishes like crispy skate and scallops canistrella is what Knapp charged for a haircut when he retired: $8 — a price that surely will retire with him.
When you ask Charlie Knapp why he kept his price so low all these years, you get another piece of wisdom we can all live by:
"I never believed in hosing anybody," he says.
"When you're done working, you can look yourself in the mirror, and say 'I tried to be fair.'"


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Hinds-Bock tool free spout centerline adjustment feature which makes changeover from one package to the other very quick. The operator simply slides the spout to the new centerline by pulling the lever and sliding the spout. Match marked gauge takes the guess work out of spout location.
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John b.1840 is the son of Michael and Elizabeth (Farmbrough) Rose (see separate photo) and he is the 2 x great grandson of my 6x great grandfather Cozens Read.
John's wife is Sarah Ann Cox b.1846 and she is the sister to John Hughes Cox who wrote the Diary Extract below.
I have included a transcript of Diary Extracts from Annie Humphreys and John Hughes Cox on another page here – see the menu on the right – and will add part of John's diary extract here as it is appropriate!
"1866 12 Feb. This has been an eventful day to Sarah Ann Cox. John Rose has been from Eythrope. They are very happy".
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It's been a busy summer, in spite of the funny weather (a day of rain, followed by three or four days of great summer weather, followed by a day of rain, etc.). And probably because, similar to how great you feel once free of pain or illness, the return of sunshine after a day of showers feels even MORE like summer, our guests haven't been too dejected by the weather.
A repeat guest who'd stayed with us last weekend emailed to say what a nice time they'd had. "We love your breakfasts," she wrote, "and we so enjoy talking to the interesting people you always seem to have staying with you."
We are blessed to have a wide variety of guests from all sorts of places. I'm the reports maven, so Susan's comment sent me off to the computer to see where our guests are coming from this year.
Of course, the majority of guests come from within a 150-mile radius in the TriState area (NY, NJ, CT), with 25% of all guests coming from Manhattan. New York and New Jersey residents make up over 50% of our guests. Interestingly, by state, the next highest percentage of guests who are US residents are from California, followed by Pennsylvania. All in all, our little bed and breakfast has hosted guests from exactly half of the fifty states this year; since we've been keeping records of this kind, we've had visitors from 45 out of 50 states in the Union, and from 35 countries.
International guests make up almost 17% of all our visitors, led by the United Kingdom (6%), Australia (4%), Germany and Canada (2% each). One gray area is that quite a number of international visitors come to us via New York City: they are living there for a period of time due to work. In this way we've hosted guests from Luxembourg, France, China, Brazil, Japan, Denmark, and more.
Needless to say, breakfast is rarely boring around here...and I love that guests enjoy it!


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Printed on the back of our breakfast menus, our Top Ten Day Trips from Looe have proved so popular with guests staying at Polraen Country House in the Looe Valley that we thought we'd share our recommendations so you can plan ahead.
Cornwall With and Without a Car
Be adventurous! Why not explore Cornwall by car, bus and train. It's rare to find hotel accommodation in Cornwall in such an idyllic rural location enjoying the convenience of both bus and train services. Our suggestions include days out from Looe with and without the car using Polraen Country House near Looe as a touring base for Cornwall and Devon. At Sandplace in the Looe Valley, Polraen Country House benefits from Bus Route Number 73 – an hourly bus service which honours senior citizen bus passes, and the scenic Looe Valley Line train giving easy access to Looe, Polperro, Liskeard and beyond.
Touring By Car
Without negotiating any narrow back lanes, it's a direct route from Polraen's car park to the A38 via Morval on the A387. In less than 10 minutes, you'll be on a fast road heading east to fantastic beaches at Whitsand, the Rame Peninsula and Devon or west into deeper Cornwall.
Exploring By Looe Valley Line Train
Just a 2 minute stroll to Sandplace Station, guests really appreciate our proximity to the scenic Looe Valley Line. 5 minutes to Looe or use it to connect with the mainline at Liskeard. It's perfect for day trips by train to St Ives, Falmouth, Truro and Plymouth. Cheap day returns and group/family discounts make the journey easier, faster, and far more relaxing than by car. It's less costly too (no fuel or parking charges). A year round service Mon-Sat and from May 17, a Sunday service too.
Travelling By Plymouth CityBus 73
Plymouth Citybus 73 runs from Polperro via Looe and Sandplace through the Looe Valley to Liskeard and beyond to Pensilva up on Bodmin Moor. It stops on request right outside the hotel and honours senior citizen bus passes so if you qualify, enjoy 'free' trips too. We're happy to assist with directions, timetables & loan Ordnance Survey maps. New for 2015, a bus service from Liskeard to Padstow, so you can now easily reach the north coast without taking the car!
Top Ten Day Trips from Looe
- Looe to Polperro Cliff top walk (on foot and by bus)
- Eden Project via Bodinnick Ferry and Fowey (by car)
- Lost Gardens of Heligan and the Victorian port of Charlestown (by car)
- Lanhydrock – a gem in the National Trust portfolio of historic houses (by car)
- Days out by train to St Ives, Truro, Falmouth, Penzance, Plymouth (by train)
- Whitsand Bay & the Rame Peninsular – the beaches & villages of Cornwall's 'forgotten corner' (by car)
- North Coast to King Arthur's Tintagel, Boscastle and Rick Stein's Padstow (by car)
- The contrast that is Bodmin Moor, granite formations, ghosts and Bodmin Jail (by car or by bus)
- Discover grey seals and amazing wildlife on visit to Looe Island (by bus/train and boat)
- Go on a mackerel or deep sea fishing trip from Looe (by bus/train and boat)
Full details and a print friendly download available here. At Polraen, we know that a little bit of local knowledge can go a long way in making the difference between a good holiday and a great one. We are more than happy to assist you during your stay, with suggestions on things to do, places to visit and how to get there. Why not book your holiday in Looe now?


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Thursday, November 27, 2008
IRL Ethanol Story Not Making Americans Happy
Normally, we do not talk about the IRL but this story is a true lesson in media relations. As you may know, the IRL cars run on ethanol. Just like NASCAR uses only Sunoco racing fuel, the IRL also picks an ethanol supplier.
As the various US-based racing series move into 2009, everyone knows it is going to be very important to carefully think through every decision in terms of suppliers and manufacturers. Apparently, this left the IRL in a tough spot where an official fuel supplier was concerned.
Click here for the USA Today story about the IRL choosing to use only Brazilian ethanol in 2009 in exchange for promoting that product and other Brazilian-made products in the IRL telecasts.
As racing fans may remember, the IRL was effectively split in half by the power of ESPN this past season. After a long run on ESPN and ABC, the big media company told the newly-united IRL it was only interested in the Indy 500 and a handful of other races. Eventually, the IRL partnered with Comcast-owned Versus for its TV future.
The Brazilian ethanol decision has resulted in some hard feelings from US-based ethanol manufacturers. Click here for the letter sent to Tony George by the head of the Renewable Fuels Organization that outlines those concerns.
After a tough season of few cars and little drama, the IRL seemed poised to enter 2009 with a new energy and many more teams. Instead, it now limps into the new year with a TV contract on a still-struggling cable network, American ethanol manufacturers fuming and several top names in the sport defecting to the Grand-Am Sports Car Series to race Daytona Prototypes.
It was September 11th of last season when one of the biggest on-air miscues in recent memory showed TV viewers just how off-kilter the IRL television package had become. Click here for the TDP column about that incident with Marty Reid at Chicagoland Speedway.
The furor over the ethanol decision is going to grow because of the combined forces of the bad American economy and the holiday season. This is exactly what the IRL did not want to see as it tries to keep itself afloat in these difficult times.
This issue became so big that IRL executive Terry Angstadt issued a statement on Thanksgiving day. You can read it by clicking here. What Angstadt effectively said was that the IRL was unable to reach a deal with an American-based ethanol supplier. He further explained that the American supplier the IRL used in the past was going out of business.
It should be interesting to watch how the media and the Internet deals with the issue of the IRL racing on Brazilian fuel even if no American supplier wanted to participate.
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Posted by Daly Planet Editor at 8:57 AM
2 comments:
- Dot said...
Here we go. Americans bitching about using foreign fuel when we have the same stuff here. Of course any business is going to use a comparable product that is cheaper.
I don't feel sorry for the US based ethanol makers. They had their chance.
- November 28, 2008 at 12:50 AM
- Richard in N.C. said...
It never helps to PO numerous members of Congress. My understanding is that the US ethanol industry does receive significant subsidy from the taxpayers.
Many thanks for the Morgan Shepherd charity link.
- November 28, 2008 at 4:49 PM
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Poetry and Pugilism
"At the Fights"
Edited by George Kimball
and John Schulian
Library of America, $19.95
Boxing has inspired memorable prose from many gifted writers, and many of those writers have hailed from Long Island's East End — George Plimpton, Budd Schulberg, Mike Lupica, Robert Lipsyte, A.J. Liebling, Wilfrid Sheed.
The prizefighters they write about are a colorful tribe. Above — or below — all other athletes, prizefighters are a driven lot. When did you last hear of a football, baseball, or basketball player called "hungry"? A.J. Liebling pointed out that while one might play baseball, football, or basketball, nobody "plays" boxing. The former heavyweight contender George Chuvalo once said, "You don't bring boxing gloves to a picnic."
In this fine boxing anthology, John Schulian, one of the editors, calls "boxing, prizefighting, the sweet science, the fight game . . . the best friend a writer ever had. . . . There is an undeniable jolt to watching violence in the ring, an almost electrical charge composed of equal parts beauty and savagery, and it can stir the poet in a writer who doesn't realize he has poetry in him."
In every story of "At the Fights," poetry meets pugilism, eloquence meets brutality, and brains meet brawn. The history of boxing is wonderfully artful and gruesome. And these writers bring beautiful prose to this ugly sport. For 3,000 years, from Homer to Ernest Hemingway, Plato to Priestly, and Virgil to Robert Lipsyte, writers have been concerned with man in the most fundamental form of competition, in the most completely expressive of the arts.
Regrettably, however, today's boxing and yesteryear's literary journalism did not reach their peaks at the same time. Today's boxing fans live in a twilight era after Muhammad Ali, and before him, Joe Louis, and before him, Jack Dempsey.
Mike Tyson? David Remnick of The New Yorker writes of Tyson in "Kid Dynamite Blows Up," ". . . he was briefly burning as a heavyweight comet . . . and a tragicomic figure." Joyce Carol Oates offers her opinion of Tyson in "Rape and the Boxing Ring": "He will be remembered less for his seemingly limitless promise and ultimately squandered talent than for two other life-defining moments, one out of the ring and one in it," the one in it involving a chunk of Evander Holyfield's ear.
But the ring has always been a refuge for the extraordinary Mike Tysons of the world. The pattern of social and economic persecution in this country is traced in the names and records of the great Irish, then Jewish, Italian, and black fighters who have graced the sport.
The boxing writers in this anthology find the ugly beauty of a sport that pits one man against another unprotected by armor and bereft of any weapon save his own fists. Boxing is a brutal sport and it reveals brutal truth. Truth is revealed in John Schulian's remembrance of Johnny Bratton, a fighter who had everything inside the ring and out until — bam! — he lost it. Now we see Johnny hanging around the lobby of a seedy South Side Chicago hotel, just keeping out of the rain. There is no better listener than Schulian to memorialize him.
There's ugly truth in Jack London's "Johnson vs. Jeffries." He gives us a 1910 ringside seat and breathes life into the historic Jack Johnson-Jim Jeffries bout held in Reno, Nev.
Katherine Dunn's riveting exposé "The Knockout: Lucia Rijker" is as honest as the award-winning film "Million Dollar Baby" was successful.
My appreciation goes out to George Kimball and John Schulian for giving us an eloquently honest boxing book that appears at a time when boxing is at its lowest ebb in the history of the sport. The stories in this book may ease the sorrow and pain of a dying sport — a sport I, for one, once loved.
Like David Sedaris, I like nonfiction books about people with wretched lives. The worse off the better. Everybody involved in boxing — the fighter, the manager, and the promoter — is a little bit off. When I boxed, I was a bit demented. That was my strength — my craziness. That's why boxing is such a fascinating topic — it's a dystopia. Boxing is where an angry soul rises out of his own smoldering slum in order to be exploited by a grasping, greedy sycophant.
When I was fighting, boxing was left hooks, uppercuts, and right crosses — it was my beauty. What daffodils were for Wordsworth, a knockout was for me.
There is no clear binding storyline in "At the Fights." The stories simply spotlight the virtues and vices of great champions: Jack Johnson, Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, Roberto Duran. There are stories about lesser champions and contenders — tragic Sonny Liston and gut-wrenching Ray Mancini. Colorful celebrities are sprinkled throughout: Malcolm X, David Merrick, Eddie Arcaro, Fatty Arbuckle, Jim Brown, Frankie Carbo, and Dizzy Dean. All hint at their own virtues and vices.
While reading this collection, with its inherent beauty-violence, I felt a kind of joy exuding from within me. Reading creative language is joyful. Traveling back in time is joyful. I suspect readers will discover their own joy reading this book.
George Plimpton, who lived in Sagaponack, had his nose bloodied by Archie Moore, was tackled by Alex Karras, pitched to Willie Mays, lost at golf to Sam Snead and at tennis to Pancho Gonzales. Plimpton was a "professional amateur" whose unique balance of insight and self-deprecating humor is evident in "Miami Notebook: Cassius Clay and Malcolm X." In it, we meet King Levinsky, "a second-rate heavyweight in his prime (he was one of Joe Louis's bums of the month) who fought too long, so it had affected him, and he is now an ambulatory tie-salesman." Plimpton, sitting at a luncheonette table, recounts Malcolm X's perspective on a young Cassius Clay: "Clay is sensitive, very humble, yet shrewd — with as much untapped mental energy as he has physical power. He should be a diplomat."
Mike Lupica of Bridgehampton, the Daily News columnist and ESPN commentator (when not playing a scrappy shortstop in East Hampton's Artists and Writers Softball Game), gives us "Donfire of the Vanities." Here we meet a nightmare named Don King. It is a scathing glimpse of a man who spent 3 years and 11 months in jail for manslaughter. From his brownstone on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, we hear King brag, "I watched the first Ali-Frazier fight in prison and I promoted the third one." The heavyweight champion Larry Holmes, one of many boxers who say King has cheated them, says of King, "He looks black, lives white, and thinks green."
"King," writes Lupica, "is one of the most remarkable figures in the history of sports. And he could have become the important black voice he desperately wants to be. Up close to King, you see the brains, you see the charm, and you see the passion. Ultimately, though, you have to see the hustler in him. The man is full of anger. It is more impressive than his whole range of thought, from Hitler to the Bible." There is much dysfunction in Don King.
Boxing is dysfunction.
The last best look America got at Dick Schaap, who died in 2001, was when he was reining in the runaway egos on ESPN's "The Sports Reporters." Schaap's "Muhammad Ali Then and Now" is an early snapshot of a young Cassius Clay. He writes: "It is ridiculous, of course, to link presidents and prizefighters, yet somehow, in this case, it seems strangely logical. When I think back to the late summer of 1960, my most persistent memories are of the two men who wanted to be president and of the boy who wanted to be heavyweight champion of the world. And he was a boy — a bubbling boy without a serious thought in his head, without a problem that he didn't feel his fists or his wit would eventually solve."
Shelter Island's Robert Lipsyte, the author of a boxing-themed novel, "The Contender," gives us "Pride of the Tiger," a gem about Dick Tiger of Nigeria, a forgotten middleweight champion who encounters more violence outside the ring than inside.
Budd Schulberg, who lived in Quiogue, was the only man to be both a winner of an Academy Award (for "On the Waterfront" in 1954) and an inductee into the International Boxing Hall of Fame. In "The Fight (the King Is Dead), " Schulberg catches lightning in a bottle when describing the 1921 Benny Leonard-Richie Mitchell bout held in the old Madison Square Garden.
There is the muscular prose of Norman Mailer in an excerpt from "The Fight," describing Ali and Joe Frazier; the biting, hyperbolic wit of H.L. Mencken in "Dempsey vs. Carpentier," and the incisive analysis of Joyce Carol Oates in "Rape and the Boxing Ring." "Boxing is for men, and is about men, and is men," Oates writes. "A celebration of the lost art of masculinity all the more lost for being lost."
Perhaps boxing is lost. Or maybe it's just anachronistic. I don't attend fights much anymore; it's a young man's sport, and I'm no longer a young man. But this book resurrected something youthful inside me. My blood ran faster, I could hear the crowds, and I felt the punches, all while sitting safely in my comfy chair.
As a writer, the insightful writing in this book made me jealous. But "At the Fights" rekindled my respect for boxing and for boxers. Ah! The pen is mightier than the sword, or in this case, the boxing glove.
Peter Wood, who lives in East Hampton, is the author of "Confessions of a Fighter" and "A Clenched Fist." He was a middleweight finalist in the 1971 New York City Golden Gloves and selected to represent America in the Maccabiah Games held in Tel Aviv, Israel, in 1977.


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Richard Stephen Dreyfuss (born October 29, 1947) is an American actor best known for starring in a number of films, television and theater roles since the late 1960s. He is probably best known for his roles in the films Jaws, The Goodbye Girl, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Always, Mr. Holland's Opus, American Graffiti and Krippendorf's Tribe.
Dreyfuss won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1977 for The Goodbye Girl, and was nominated in 1995 for Mr. Holland's Opus. He has also won multiple Golden Globe Awards, BAFTA Awards, and Screen Actors Guild Awards for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor.
Dreyfuss was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Norman, an attorney and restaurateur, and Geraldine, a peace activist. Dreyfuss is Jewish and his surname is of Yiddish origin, believed to originate in the German city of Trier, which had a large Jewish population in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. The Latin name for the city was "Treveris", of which Dreyfuss is a variant. He commented that he "grew up thinking that Alfred Dreyfus and are of the same family."


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Colorado River Full Day Trip
- Duration: 1 Days (approx.)
- Location: Estes Park, Colorado
Note: Trip duration includes drive time to the river in air conditioned passenger vans, safety orientation, rafting for 4-5 hours (depending on water flows), and drive back to Estes Park. All participants must be at least 7 years of age and weigh at least 50 pounds.
Full Day Trips
You've probably seen the Colorado River and Rocky Mountain National Park featured on television - now you can experience them yourself!
The experience begins in Estes Park early in the morning with a drive over scenic Trail Ridge Road through beautiful Rocky Mountain National Park. Trail Ridge Road is the highest continuous paved road in the United States. We'll take you up to 12,183 feet for spectacular views and cross the continental divide to the western slope.
Where else can you see SNOW and go rafting in the same day?
When we arrive at the river, grab a paddle to help guide the raft and get into the action. Or if you prefer, the guide will do the work for you. After all, it's YOUR vacation! The Full Day on the Colorado River offers a moderate whitewater trip suitable for the first time and experienced rafter. From the exciting deep canyon rapids to the relaxing scenic floatwater stretches, this trip has it all. Some enjoy it so much they come back to float with us each season and bring their friends.
We raft a 12 mile stretch of scenic float water, encounter some class II and III rapids like Needles Eye and Yarmony, float by a natural hot springs*, as well as some 100+ year old miner cabins. We are on the water 4-5 hours and stop for a picnic lunch. A riverside deli-style buffet and beverages are provided.
We provide transportation from Estes Park so everyone can enjoy the scenery, or you can choose to meet us at the river launch site.
If you have the time, those who do both of our trips prefer the Full Day Trip.
These trips usually run early June through the end of August. This can vary with river conditions.
$120 per person includes transportation from Estes Park
(prices include all taxes and fees)
You can pay that for just a tour of Rocky Mountain National Park!
All participants must be at least 7 years of age and weigh at least 50 pounds
Cancellation Policy:
We go rain or shine - weather can be different on the river than it is in Estes Park. We take payment at time of reservation. We run at capacity most of the season and turn away others to hold the space for you. We reserve the space for you - you in turn agree to pay for the trip. All money is fully refundable if we are advised of the cancellation at least 7 days prior to the trip.
Within 7 days of the trip, we are happy to refund your money if given enough advance notice to resell the space. Trips resold within 7 days will be refunded minus a $5.00 processing charge per participant. No refund applies if the space is not resold before the trip.
Absolutely no refunds if you just do not show up for the trip. We turn away others to hold the space for you. Additionally, drivers, guides and meals are prearranged based on your being on the trip. These costs cannot be recouped. Thank you for understanding.
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What we do: Today, we buy, refine, and assay all forms of gold, silver, platinum, and palladium. We also specialize in the most advanced chemical and induction techniques to extract precious metals from buffing dirt, filings, polishings, crucibles, floor sweeps, filters, watch batteries, and industrial, electronic, and dental materials.
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Christian Mission necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 94 diseños de 22 diseñadores freelance.
The Christian Mission
The Christian Mission of Mooresville / Lake Norman is a non-denominational Christian ministry committed to helping people change their lives for the better. Our organization helps people in crisis by providing jobs skills training, emergency food assistance, heating oil payment assistance, and accountability. Additionally we serve the elderly and disabled population with regular meals among many other services.
Our organization has a strong community presence and works with the mindset of people helping people. The Christian Mission seeks to live out the Biblical teaching of loving your neighbor as yourself.
The Christian Mission has served the Mooresville / Lake Norman area of North Carolina since 1939. Mooresville, NC is approximately 20 miles north of Charlotte, NC and sits on the eastern shore of Lake Norman.
web site: http://www.mooresvillechristianmission.org
Web-site will be rebranded with new logo and will likely require new domain name as "Lake Norman" needs to be included in web address or "mooresville" needs to be removed from address.
Our goal is to create a logo that primarily focuses on the name "The Christian Mission" with the qualification of "Mooresville / Lake Norman."
Donors, typically aged 25-75 years of age.
Clients of our services (all ages).
Community at large.
Want clean, professional look to appeal to both donors and those that may need our ministry services.
Logo will be used for web-site, stationery, signage, and vehicles.
With respect to the name, "The Christian Mission" should be the primary focus with "Mooresville / Lake Norman" as a secondary component.
Prefer common fonts.
Would like clear and crisp logo design that easily converts to black and white if application requires it.
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OAKLAND — A 77-year-old woman was found dead Friday afternoon in what police say was a home-invasion robbery.
Officers responded to an apartment on the 1800 block of 34th Avenue around 2:15 p.m. after a caller asked for a welfare check on the residence, police said. When they arrived, they found the woman, later identified by police as Susan Fong, and a 56-year-old man inside.
Fong, who was unresponsive when officers arrived, was declared dead by paramedics a short time later. The man was not injured.
Police said Fong's cause of death could not be determined as it did not appear she suffered either a gunshot wound or blunt force trauma.
There were signs of forced entry at the apartment, police said, but investigators were still trying to determine Friday evening if anything was taken from the home.
Police said that Fong owned the four-unit apartment building where the robbery took place, and had lived there for at least 30 years.
Fong and the male victim are related, police added, but they would not elaborate. Investigators are questioning the man, and he is being cooperative, police said.
The death comes just over a week after an 81-year-old woman was shot and wounded by an intruder during a home-invasion robbery Jan. 28 in her Dimond District home.
Anyone with information on the incident is encouraged to call the Oakland Police Department's homicide unit at 510-238-3621.
Police and Crime Stoppers of Oakland are offering up to $20,000 in reward money for information leading to the arrest of the killer. Anyone with information may call investigators at 510-238-3821, a tip line at 510-773-2805 or Crime Stoppers at 510-777-8572.
Staff writers Katie Nelson and Harry Harris contributed to this report. Follow Kristin J. Bender at Twitter.com/kjbender.


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ALA has incorporated specialized sections and divisions from its early existence, beginning with the college and reference librarians (1889), the trustees (1890) and catalogers (1900). Today ALA is home to eleven membership divisions, each with a type-of-library or type-of-library-function specialization.
By policy See Policy 6.4.1, each division has a statement of responsibility developed by its members and approved by the ALA Council, a set of goals and objectives to drive its activities, an executive director and other personnel (as necessary), responsibility for generating revenue to carry out its programs, and a separate Board of Directors, elected by the members of the division. Each division is represented on the ALA Council and in the Planning and Budget Assembly.
ALA divisions publish journals, books, newsletters and other materials; provide continuing education in a variety of venues and formats; offer awards and scholarships; sponsor institutes and conferences; and, maintain networks of affiliates, chapters and other collaborative relationships.
Members of ALA divisions must first be members of the American Library Association. A majority of ALA members belong to one or more division.
ALA divisions include:
American Association of School Librarians (AASL)
Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS)
Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC)
Association for Library Trustees and Advocates (ALTA)
Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)
Association of Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies (ASCLA)
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Bar Necklace in Ash
Bar Necklace in Ash
3 inch glass bar with copper patina and a 16-18 inch brass chain and findings.
This Collection is the product of an unlikely collaboration. The late art professor and artist Barbara Swindell, whom I've never met, traveled to Italy as an art student in the 1970's and created a large collection of marbled papers that she carefully stored for decades in her basement studio. After her passing, an estate sale was advertised and the door to her treasure trove of works was opened to the public. I instantly fell in love with her entire body of work as she was a prolific printmaker, photographer, glass artist, illustrator, and painter. She also was a collector of obscurities which is dear to my heart. I brought home her collection of marbled papers and a large silver cup that was packed full of her accolades. Every art show, award, and grad school remark from her professors carefully collected during her lifetime. I was saddened to walk through the basement where she hid all of her artwork. I felt like this would be me at the end of my life and I at once knew that her work must live on. Here is the culmination of this idea. I named the pieces after types of soil because she chose cremation and the spreading of her ashes as her final wish. Dust to Dust. I hope you enjoy my glasswork along with the beauty of her marbled papers. I hope this brings Barbara a little bit of joy, as the spirit of this artist will surely never die and her work remains relevant.


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« Back to Fish & Seafood Restaurants In Lebanon
Laziz – Hamra
Modenrn Oriental Café & Restaurant
Review by Jean
In the heart of Hamra, this restaurant by Boubess Group is first distinguishable by its original decoration: vivid colors on the walls and chairs, nice tables with traditional arabesques. You feel yourself in an Arabic version of international chains, which I must admit has been set up very successfully. Apart from the decoration, the music also fits well with the place, during our visit they played nicely modernized versions of Arabic songs of the 70s, lovely.
Talking about the food, they serve Lebanese dishes, plat-du-jour and desserts. There is more variety than the traditional mezze we find everywhere. Our order was very good, as was the freshly squeezed juice and the dessert. The service was nice and polite.
The only complain would be about the smoke, which some may find inappropriate while eating, but that's part of Lebanese tradition.Write a Review
Traditional Lebanese dishes.
Suitable for vegetarians.
Good to know
Recommended for friends.
Hamra street, near starbucks coffeeshop
3 Reviews
Feb 1, 2012 at 04:30I just couldn't learn to like that place. They for some reason decided to change their image too... (yeah, still no). The food was average, chicken came tasteless, pepsi was served in the old traditional bottles... cute, but it's just that I know that I can get this bottle for 250LL any place in Beirut... so i dont understand why you have to make it soooo obvious that im being ripped off and being asked to pay more than 20 times its real price! Save me the pain!! I was not impressed with anything at that place except the interior. If you feel like sitting in a place the just looks "pretty" regardless of the average fair food, then its your place!
May 29, 2011 at 15:10When i'm back from Dubai for my anniual leave first .i must have my launch in this restaurant,this year it was something special the atmosphere+their recomendation for new menu......this coming monday i'll go and have my launch there before i go back to Dubai. only the problem is the SMOKING.... CONGRATULATIONS FOR NEW MANAGMENT.
Feb 13, 2012 at 16:39The food at laziz is the best and its lebanese , you can remember the old days.
Call them
Phone Number: 01 353 433
Website: http://www.laziz.me/
This restaurant makes delivery.
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Hamra street, near starbucks coffeeshop
See Also
Warde - Hamra(15 votes)
Home-made Lebanese and Western Cuisine in a Warm Atmosphere
Le Chef - Gemmayzeh(15 votes)
Famous old, traditional and cheap restaurant of Gemmayzeh street
Go Tango(74 votes)
Snack and grill
Massaya Beirut - Downtown(1 votes)
Socrate - Hamra(9 votes)
Catering and restaurant famous for its daily dishes
Baytna - Tripoli(29 votes)
Exquisite Lebanese restaurant in Tripoli


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Yes, the title of this post is supposed to be loaded with meaning — spring-loaded with meaning, if you will: because this post is about spring, and it's about first lines of stories — which are the spring-boards into the tales.
Before I get into all that and before I forget, just last night I re-watched the movie Hero, starring Jet Li. This is one of those movies that I think highly enough of to endorse here, and it's one I like enough to own. That's my highest recommendation. It's a movie I wanted on my shelf, so that I can periodically re-watch it. Don't let the casting mislead you: this is no mere martial arts escapism flick. It's a beautiful and mythic work of art from beginning to end, like a painting that moves. The musical score is haunting, and the film's theme is epic and of consequence; it's one of those stories that makes you reflect on how you want to live your life.
It's not a very long film, and it's not hard to watch. If you feel like a foray into Chinese history and thought — and into an exploration of patriotism, loyalty, love, and the question of what defines a hero, check this one out.
A couple notes: the Emperor in this film, the King of Qin, is that same real-life historical Emperor who had all the Terra-Cotta Warriors made to be buried with him in his tomb.
Also, pay attention to the opening quotation on the screen. Also, the English translation of the character's name "Broken Sword" is a bit misleading. His name is made of the kanji for "break" and the one for "sword" — so "Broken Sword" is one rendering, but it can also be understood as "Breaks the Sword" or some such. The idea is that he's a man who has come to, as the film asserts, the warrior's ultimate epiphany: that Peace is the best way. So this character has "surpassed" or "overcome" the sword. He has broken the sword and put it away.
Anyway, Hero, presented by Quentin Tarantino, starring Jet Li, Tony
Leung, Maggie Cheung, Zhang Ziyi, Chen Dao Ming, and Donnie Yen is an artful masterpiece. Two thumbs up.
Oh! — This is sort of explained in the movie, but when the candle flames whoosh and waver between Nameless and the Emperor, that indicates the waves of fury and hatred that are rushing out of Nameless toward his enemy.
Well, now, on to our main topic!
Spring is always the season when I yearn to do more reading and more writing. It's a time of burgeoning creativity, with blazing summer just appearing in the distance, trundling down the road under a golden haze. So I thought it would be fun to roust out all the first sentences from my stories and line them up here for our mutual entertainment and especially inspiration.
Look at all these spring-boards into stories! Stories all begin (for readers) with a little string of words that gives us our first glimpse of the things to come. Here are mine, from nearly every one of my stories that I could remember, with a very few exceptions. They're (almost) all here, published and unpublished.
If any of these stories catches your interest, remember that you can
always go over to my website (http://www.fredericsdurbin.com) and see the specifics: when and where it was published, and if you click on the story title there, you can even read a little thumbnail blurb about it.
If a story isn't there, that usually (but not always) means it's not published yet. If you have any trouble, questions, etc., please feel most free to write to me personally, and we'll talk it over. In some cases I may be able to provide you with the story or direct you to where you can find it.
Ready? Here we gooooo!
Bad things were starting to happen again in Uncle Henry's basement.
"The Fool Who Fished for a King":
Alaric, the fisherman's nephew, was a fool.
The old barn sang to Timothy.
"Ren and the Shadow Imps":
Ren clutched his vest closed at the neck and shivered, although it was a summer night.
"Murik and the Magic Sack":
Murik trudged deep into the forest, where roots twisted like slimy stairways.
"The Guardian Tree, Part 2":
Far beyond the city, where birds still
sang ancient songs, the fey folk listened.
"The Gift":
The winding stairway had never seemed so dark.
"The Place of Roots":
Kirith had not been meant to ride the wind: I was sure of it.
"The Bone Man":
It was hunger that made Conlin turn off the route.
"The Star Shard":
Cymbril sang.
Corin Booknose:
Everything changed when the Wall of our world broke; the life we had known ended with the splitting of rock.
The Fires of the Deep:
Strange, Loft thought in the years afterward, that such a day could begin with the calm voice of water, a changeless voice on the day that everything changed.
A Green and Ancient Light:
As the American frontier moved westward, new homesteads blossomed in the clearings of the forests and among the prairie grasses.
"The Enchanted Mountain: A Tale of Long-Ago Japan":
Another landslide had struck the village of Takakura.
"A Tale of Silences":
Jii turned the carving in his weathered hands, pursing his lips to blow away a runnel of wood.
The Threshold of Twilight:
Trees outside the white frame house filled the kitchen with a lazy glow of sunlight and dancing green shadows.
Aunt Estelle wasn't as bad as Shan had dreaded; it was her house that bothered him.
Faint moonlight glowed in the room, though the curtains were drawn.
"The Giant":
Wind shrieked over the bleak rise, driving snow that swirled and stung the men's faces.
The courthouse in Fillmore smelled old.
"Under the Tower of Valk":
The garrison commander nudged the pale corpse with his steel-toed boot.
"Here About to Die":
This is the day I am to die.
"The Bones of Oron-Dha":
Red light flickers on the basalt blocks of the walls, the ceiling, and the floor of this temple of the dread god Arhazh.
"A Fire in Shandria":
A grand and fearful thing it is to be summoned into the presence of Azanah the Queen: grand, for I am a mere sword-maiden of the Fifth Heilon, those who guard the city's west wall, specifically the Gate of the Moon; fearful, for all know the Queen's severity.
"The Last A'Hanti":
"The Heir of Agondria":
Fire sang as it surged through the wood-heap, the brilliant flames flowing, consuming, leaping high in the autumnal night air.
"Lucia's Quest":
'We are here!' called Iloni over the ringing of swords.
Drums pounded in the night, the drums of the horse-clans of Hemath.
Quite a whirlwind tour, huh? I hope it's had the effect of making you want to run to your bookshelf and dive into a good story — or maybe write one — and to enjoy the gifts of this season, when the world is trembling with ancient enchantment and nascent abundance. Petals are opening out there, and tales are to be born! Nurture them! Live them! As Garrison Keillor says: "Don't sleep. You can sleep in the winter."
I'm going to steal shamelessly a great concept I heard from Tandemcat
just now: we may write with ink on paper, but we also write in people's lives, through our interactions with them. I like to use this quote in my classes from Tennyson's The Princess:
"Our echoes roll from soul to soul,
And grow for ever and for ever."
I know this is anticlimactic, but an urgent message needs to be conveyed: I continue to hear from readers who have just recently discovered the "comments" aspect of this blog. If you don't know about the fact that you can read other readers' comments and leave your own (if you want to — no obligation!), then I'm happy to tell you that your enjoyment of this blog can easily double or triple! At the end of every posting or entry, you'll
find the word "comments." Click on that, and you can read what others have said. Leave your own if you feel so inclined! (If you're doing it for the first time, your comment comes to me for approval, so there may be a slight delay before it appears.) I tell you the truth: if you're only reading my entries, you're missing out! You're only sailing on the ocean's surface, and you have all the wonders of snorkeling and SCUBA diving ahead of you! Come join us on the seamy underside of the blog. . . .
Happy May Day!


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We're down to just days now, guys. Days. I've been playing this game for the better part of 7 years now and at this point it's sort of amazing that I'm still capable of getting excited about anything it throws at me, but I have to say that I'm pretty damn giddy right now. I want to make a panda. I want to teach it to conjure pastries and hurl fireballs. I want to gain 5 levels on my main. I want to explore Azerothian Asia. I want to learn to sew new and prettier pairs of pants. I want to put a Rune of Power right outside Hot Topic, then just stand there like Gandalf, making sure all the warlocks most certainly do not pass.
But there are still a few items of business to attend to before that expansion hits and I can do all those infinitely fun things. We've already discussed a lot of them. A quick recap:
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Despite the best efforts of educators across the country, there are gay men putting their lives in danger right now. They're continuing high-risk behavior when they know the consequences could be deadly. And many of them secretly believe that, if worse comes to worse, new treatment breakthroughs will save them in the end.
But enough about smokers.
Welcome to 2001: An AIDS Odyssey, where the disease feels routine, HIV-positive men are questioning authority, and we're all still patiently waiting for the word on oral sex. Along the way, there are six topics gay men are avoiding, such as:
AIDS has been normalized in the minds of gay men. Until the mid '90s we had tremendous prevention campaigns. They were called funerals. Nothing today offers such stark motivation. I once thought people who took sexual risks were blithely screwing on the memories of my dead friends. But any activist, educator or physician who feels this way needs a time-out.
The relative danger of risky sex now feels, for too many, on a par with plenty of other life-threatening habits (puff puff). And the fact remains that most gay men make thoughtful sexual choices, whatever they may be. I have known AIDS counselors who still seriously chastise HIV negative, monogamous couples who want to ditch the condoms because "you can't trust anybody." We should have bigger things to worry about than destroying intimacy between committed couples. It's just too jaded for the world I want to live in.
Disclose your status and be done with it. A gay man today who isn't ready to disclose his status isn't ready for sex, either. I dislike the debate about who bears more responsibility -- positive or negative men -- because it's a destructive dead end. That said, an HIV-negative guy has a lot more to lose by not having the conversation . . . and a poz guy who won't disclose might not have as much to lose . . . except his self respect.
Sex was never completely safe. Not so long ago, getting a sexually transmitted disease (STD) was embarrassing, not a morally reprehensible act. The idea of acquiring an STD makes me feel nostalgic for simpler times. While it is true that hepatitis poses a serious threat, its primary transmission route (rimming or handling a dirty condom) can foil even the safest sex. Have you had your shots?
Show us the research. The single Canadian report suggesting that re-infection of a positive person may be harmful, or even possible, came along quite by accident. There is still no formal study to investigate this possibility. Real studies to help us make informed decisions (the risk of oral sex, the effects of substance abuse on viral replication, the infectious degree of someone with no HIV viral activity) are desperately needed, and results should be used to design new education campaigns. Which brings us to . . .
In the absence of science, poz men are making their own rules. Imagine how difficult it would be to curb cigarettes if no research confirmed that smoking after you were diagnosed with cancer was harmful. Think Grandpa would give up his Lucky Strikes?
Many positive couples who forgo the condoms are -- stay with me here -- making a choice to embrace life, and intimacy, and defiantly thumbing their noses at years of grief and slaughter. Meanwhile, single poz men who seek out poz partners for unprotected sex are practicing their own form of natural selection, and preventing new infections in the process. If the worst we have to say about this practice is the unknown risk of catching a more virulent strain, expect them to continue. If research proves otherwise, let's share it.
This may not be pretty, especially to negative people who are shocked, simply shocked. Please, don't shoot the messenger.
Barebacking as psychotic behavior is a myth. I've questioned supposedly HIV-negative "gift receivers" online (men who fetish the idea of becoming infected), and they usually admit to being positive men who want to bareback. Or negative men who, as any Sexuality 101 class will explain, are eroticizing danger without further intent. Any man who actually wants to go through with it comprises a sick little corner of life only the internet could reveal. Focusing on this phenomenon tells me we finally got tired of demonizing circuit parties and needed a new target of abject scorn.
AIDS is tainted with too much grief, anger, judgment, and high drama for any of these thoughts to come easily. Let's hope our AIDS community leaders, and each of us, will learn to speak up. Can we share a smoke and discuss it?
Mark S. King worked for AIDS non-profits until 1999. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Black, George F., The Surnames of Scotland Their Origin, Meaning and History. New York: New York Public Library, 1946. Print. (ISBN 0-87104-172-3)
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