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Ohhhhhh camnnnaaadddaaaaa
That is a very good question!!
lol
Yooo u ever comin back lol
I am in Alicante Spain for 6 weeks then off to Portugal for about the same. Will visit other areas in between. So far finding out that besides booze and vegetables and fruits cost of living is pretty much the same as in Canada. I was expecting cheaper but I am frugal and often am able to hunt down best bargains. Great talking to you ou.
Anybody here have experience with long term holiday rentals in Spain or Portugal? I would appreciate hearing about your experiences or any advice you might have ... cheers!
The Andalucian Friend by Alexander Soderberg is a great read. First novel by a Swedish writer and reminiscent of Girl with a Tatoo but better.
OU lucky u what a trip
Long trip home starts today
Going home tomorrow morning on early flight
Greetings from Dubrovnik Croatia!
Interesting and beautiful country but I can see why some may stay away. Not cheap by any stretch but very affordable. I loved germany and look forward to France.
Zadar was the best city in Croatia. Bus drivers must have gone to kamikaze school. You put on your seatbelt and pray but you know that 3000 foot drop will have no mercy.
as yoy know I spent a great deal of time in fl I wouldn't recommend the state but there are many places that are nice there pm me and ill fill you in
Hey MACH -- Good to hear from you! Doing fine here. Still playing with computers and software and keeping track of markets but not trading much anymore. Been travelling and planning another trip soon. Looking for a place to spend winters. Southern USA, Spain and Portugal on radar but open to suggestions. Damn cold up here -- lol
Hope all is well with you!
ou
OU how are you bud
Buy a dozen red roses and all of a sudden cashiers and waitresses give you the biggest smile and winks
Installed a new dishwasher today
Bone chilling cold here with wind.
Happy New Year! May you all get the best things in life this year!
Thank you my friend. Freezing rain here but quite cozy by the fireplace (gas insert -- lol)
Hi OU...that's a good thing! stay warm
Kirby
Virgin came through and fixed my phone in 5 days instead of estimated 30 days. This includes shipping to a depot 250 miles away! Speaker was defective.
Got a Playbook and loving it!!!! Too bad I only got the 16GB version
Seriously pissed at Virgin mobile for overcharging on my prepaid card. My experience with cellular carriers has not been good. They are cellular bandits.
Resealed driveway for the winter and getting ready to leave soon.
What a beautiful summer. Just finished another excellent Paul Giamatti movie and a lovely chilled Pinot Noir ... life is good.
VISTA Premium had 22 updates last night at shut down. Had a blank screen for a while this am.
;(
The Killing is an awesome series ... best one on TV right now
Good Wife and Body of Proof have been my two favourite shows this year, but The Killing has to be the best in many years.
Riding my Buick Park Avenue till it drops, it's birthday is in July and will be 20 years old. Carriage getting rusty and front suspension weakening. Mechanic finally said, "I think you should start looking for a new car.". Broke my heart as it I'd still so fine looking.
Playing with Mint 9 Linux on laptop. Pretty cool as it is very fast and stable.
Discovery of stolen viola sweet music to owner's ears
But getting the prized instrument was a struggle
Jon Yates
What's Your Problem?
August 22, 2010
The burglar struck Labor Day weekend 1999, removing the window air conditioner, then entering through the opening.
When Robin Hosemann returned from her holiday, she found her Ravenswood apartment ransacked. Despite the mess, the thief had taken only one thing: Hosemann's prized 1986 Armin Barnett viola.
It had taken Hosemann years to save up for the instrument, then valued at $4,500.
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She filed a police report that day, hoping that somehow, investigators would be able to track down the thief. After several years, the trail grew cold and the detective assigned to the case retired.
Hosemann had no renters insurance. At the time, she had just moved out of her parents' house and thought the viola was covered by her family's policy.
It wasn't.
Still, Hosemann could not give up. Because the instrument was one of a kind — the only viola made by Barnett in 1986 — Hosemann hoped that if it ever turned up for sale, she would see it.
Each year, she typed in a description of the instrument into a Google search box, and each year the scan came up blank.
Then last fall, she conducted her annual Internet search, and up popped a picture of her viola — for sale online at a Cleveland violin store, Peter Zaret & Sons.
In October, Hosemann went to the store and asked to see the viola.
Instantaneously, the years melted away.
"There are certain things you know about an instrument you've played for a long time. The coloring on the back and the nick I made with my bow on accident, it was still there," Hosemann said. "My heart was racing. I said 'This is my instrument. It was stolen from me.'"
The store's owner, Peter Zaret, demurred. He told Hosemann that he paid good money for the viola, and that as far as he was concerned, it was his. He offered to sell it back to her — for $5,000.
Hosemann, who now lives in Ferryville, Wis., returned home frustrated. She called Chicago police, who instructed her to call the Cleveland police department. Cleveland police sent her back to the Chicago police.
Upset, Hosemann e-mailed What's Your Problem?
"I've tried to think this through," she said. "I get so angry when I think that it was stolen and I have proof that it was stolen. Why should I have to pay for it? It's mine."
The Problem Solver did a little research and discovered that for multiple reasons, the viola should be returned to Hosemann.
Robert Bennett, a professor at Northwestern University's School of Law, said that legally the viola is still Hosemann's. Even if Zaret paid for the viola and did not know it was stolen, he could not assume ownership of the instrument because Hosemann never relinquished it.
"A thief cannot pass on title," Bennett said. "It remains the original owner's property."
In addition, federal law prohibits the transportation of stolen goods valued over $5,000 across state lines, and Ohio law makes it illegal to receive, possess or sell property believed have been obtained by theft.
Clearly, the viola is legally Hosemann's.
The Problem Solver first called Zaret last month. Zaret said he bought the viola from an individual he has known for some time. He described the man as "slimy."
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"He sold it to me along with a couple other items," Zaret said. "He's related to another fella who came through here who's a criminal and he lives in Canada — if he hasn't been arrested and thrown in jail."
In that first call, Zaret said that if Hosemann could present him with paperwork proving the viola was hers, he would return it to her.
But after Hosemann e-mailed Zaret the paperwork, Zaret had a change of heart. He referred subsequent calls to his attorney, Michael Teitelbaum, who told the Problem Solver he advised Zaret not to return the viola to Hosemann unless she paid for it.
"As I told (Zaret) as his counsel, as long as he did not know and had no reason to know the viola was stolen, he paid fair value for the instrument, and the instrument rightfully belongs to him," Teitelbaum said.
The Problem Solver then e-mailed Teitelbaum legal references, along with an e-mail Zaret sent Hosemann in December, saying he purchased the viola from a man he "never trusted." Zaret's e-mail also mentioned a second man who was involved in the transaction. He said that man lived in Canada.
"However, he has been known to have stolen some instruments from students at the Indiana University," Zaret wrote.
Hours after receiving the Problem Solver's e-mail, Teitelbaum called back.
"I spoke with my client today and he is willing to give Ms. Hosemann back her viola," he said.
Teitelbaum reiterated that his client had done nothing wrong and had no idea until recently the instrument was stolen.
On Aug. 14, Zaret gave the viola to Hosemann's brother, who lives in Cleveland. She plans to visit her brother in October to pick up the instrument and bring it home.
"My life has changed so much since I played it," said Hosemann, who now teaches reading at a local middle school and leads violin lessons. "It's kind of like a baby returning home after being gone to school."
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/problemsolver/ct-biz-0822-problem-hosemann-20100822,0,6369555.column?page=2
Aaron Jenson is one of the best loose canons so far on the Big Game (Pokerstars). He is like a pro yet a proclaimed nerd.
After Life
Very very strange movie but if you are patient the last 30 minutes is its redemption.
Liam Neeson and Christina Ricci (naked for most of movie)
Antarctica Challenge
Stunning photography and very eco-minded if you are into that issue
Dateline UK: Toppling Tehran
I read recently about a black bear that got into a car and drove it in a ditch and it took two hours to extricate the animal from the wreckage.
They let the bear go into the wilds -- with a warning.
Cops Issue Cat Alert for Feline That Caused Wreck
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 7:52 a.m. ET
BANKS, Ore. (AP) -- Oregon State Police have taken the unusual step of issuing a missing cat alert for a feline that caused a car crash, escaped from a smashed SUV and vanished.
Southern Oregon University student Brittany Spady rolled her Ford Explorer on U.S. 26 east of Banks on Monday night after her long-haired tortoiseshell cat Calysta crawled between the brake and gas pedals. Spady said she took her eyes off the road to try and stop the cat.
She said the cat refuses to travel in a carrier. Spady was headed home from Ashland and was just two miles from her parents' house when her vehicle went into a ditch, rolled and hit a tree.
The cat bolted, vanishing into nearby forest.
State Police spokesman Lt. Gregg Hastings said the family has been out looking for the missing cat -- and he wanted to help.
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Information from: The Oregonian, http://www.oregonlive.com
Hungary Sued in Holocaust Art Claim
By CAROL VOGEL
El Greco's "The Agony in the Garden."
For more than two decades the heirs of a world-renowned Jewish collector have been petitioning the Hungarian government to return more than $100 million worth of art, most of which has been hanging in Hungarian museums, where it was left for safekeeping during World War II or placed after being stolen by the Nazis and later returned to Hungary.
The requests have been rebuffed, as have appeals to the government from current and former United States senators, including the Democrats Christopher J. Dodd, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Edward M. Kennedy. Finally, in 2008, a Hungarian court ruled that the government was not required to return the art.
Now, in what experts say is the world’s largest unresolved Holocaust art claim, the heirs of the Hungarian banker Baron Mor Lipot Herzog have filed a lawsuit in United States District Court in Washington demanding the return of the art collection they say is rightfully theirs. The lawsuit has been filed against Hungary and several museums that it oversees.
The suit, filed on Tuesday, includes an unprecedented twist: in addition to the more than 40 artworks explicitly identified in the filing — including paintings, sculptures and other works by masters like El Greco, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Zurbarán, van Dyck, Velázquez and Monet — lawyers are also asking the Hungarian government for an accounting of all art from the Herzog family in its possession.
“It’s a very emotional subject,” David de Csepel, a great-grandson of Baron Herzog who lives in Los Angeles, said of the collection’s fate in a telephone interview. Mr. de Csepel, who said he was speaking on behalf of about a dozen relatives, explained that this lawsuit had come after decades of frustration with the Hungarian government. “I want to see justice done. My great-grandfather was one of the most famous collectors in all of Europe. His passion and love of art is well known.”
Mr. de Csepel, 44, remembers hearing about the art from his grandmother when he was a boy growing up just outside of New York. “It was something she held dear to her,” he said. “She got a hold of a book of the collection from one of the museums, cut out the pictures and hung them around her apartment.”
Michael S. Shuster, a lawyer for the Herzog family, said that Hungary had been “one of the countries that has been the most recalcitrant” about returning looted art.
“While other countries have cooperated,” he said, “Hungary has been bucking that trend.”
Gabor Foldvari, Hungary’s deputy consul general in New York, said in a telephone interview that it was not a question of Hungary’s refusing to cooperate but that, in the case of the Herzog heirs, “it was not the government’s decision, but the court’s decision” to keep the art.
Hungary is not the only country with looted Herzog art. Over the years the family has made legal claims in Poland, Russia and Germany, seeking the return of art and objects seized during and after World War II. This year the German government returned three works: an 18th-century snuffbox said to have belonged to Frederick the Great; a painting by Zeitblom, a 15th-century German artist; and a 1545 portrait by Georg Pencz, which the Herzogs sold at Christie’s in London this month for $8.5 million. That money is being used to support the heirs’ litigation, according to Mr. Shuster and Charles A. Goldstein, counsel to the Commission for Art Recovery, a 13-year-old nonprofit organization that helps victims of Nazi art thefts. (Asked if the Herzog heirs were planning to auction some or all of the collection if art were returned, as many families in similar situations have done, both Mr. Shuster and Mr. Goldstein said nothing had been decided.)
Part of the family’s frustration, Mr. Shuster said — and one reason the lawsuit requests a Hungarian inventory — is that it appears impossible to know just how much art is actually missing. Russia, for example, where some family members filed a lawsuit in 1999 that is still pending, is believed to have a number of works by artists including El Greco, Goya and Renoir that were stolen by the Nazis and then seized by the Soviets in Germany. Those works may be just a small segment of what was lost.
And in Hungary, the Herzogs believe, there may be many more than the works named in the suit, which are valued at a total of about $100 million. (That figure was arrived at after asking dealers and auction-house experts to value the property from photographs and visits to some of the museums.)
“About 12 years ago I was put in touch with one of the Herzog heirs through friends,” said George Wachter, who runs Sotheby’s old master paintings department worldwide. “And I was asked to go to Budapest to meet with their lawyer and look at” several paintings. Mr. Wachter took the trip and described the art he saw as “good, solid, quality pictures,” adding, “I can understand why Hungary wouldn’t let them go.”
Before this latest lawsuit, the heirs tried to compromise with the Hungarian museums. “Fifteen years ago the family offered to split the paintings with the government, and they turned them down,” Mr. Goldstein said. “Germany and Austria have come to terms with this issue, but Hungary has not. They have refused to take responsibility.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/28/arts/design/28lawsuit.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print
Homes from Hell
Episode 3 Season 1
I like it I like it a lot
The Good Guys
Kinda funny but not by much
Ghost Writer by Roman Polanski
Excellent movie!!
This series is actually too much for me
Havana Room
by the same author
first chapters are awesome!!
I was totally wrong on Persons Unknown -- there may still be some hope...
The Shift
Even more old fashion detective type show for the real die-hards of this genre.
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