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I’ve decided to put my place up for sale after getting it appraised a few weeks ago. If you or anyone you know is interested let me know.  It’s sad to see it go since it’s been a dream place to have but I’m moving on to San Francisco at the end of January.  Check it out here (it will also be up on Craigslist, in the paper and a few other places).

Description
This 860 square foot unit was bought 3-years ago when the building was being renovated from apartments to condos. RiverWest is an all condo building with 75% of owners occupying their units making it a nice friendly community where you can get to know you’re neighbors. The entire building was renovated 3-years ago and the lobby now has a fountain, gourmet kitchen and living room equipped with a Plasma TV that can be used for hosting your large gatherings. Additionally a 2nd social room on the 1st floor was added with a pool table and plasma TV as well. The fitness center has a full weight room, ellipticals and tread mills with personal LCD TV’s on each of the aerobic units. Outside on the 1st floor is a pool with a skyline view of the city as well as a gas fire place and grills for hosting barbecues. Just inside by the pool you would have access to a sauna and jacuzzi along with locker rooms. The actual unit overlooks the Mississippi river with a view of both the 3rd avenue bridge and Stone Arch bridge. To see a picture of the view from the balcony check out the panoramic photo which was shot from standing on the units balcony. The unit was planned and decorated by Dwelling Designs, a local interior design firm that decorated the common areas as well. The space has dark hard wood floors in the kitchen and living room with carpet in the bedroom. Large breakfast island in the center of the kitchen, slate tile in the bathroom, black granite counter tops throughout, stainless steel GE appliances, and a in-unit washer and dryer.

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I was pretty much in a daze after leaving Minneapolis at 7pm on Sunday and getting in to Dubai at 10pm Monday night.  Flying in to the city was cool at night since you could see the Burj Dubai (tallest building in the world) and the man made islands as we came in.  I took a taxi to the hotel and crashed until 6am this morning at which time I was woken up by a new skyscraper being built next door.  The city is crazy - as if they were trying to build every skyscraper in Manhatten all at once.  They are all about 2/3 done but you can’t get arund by foot very well since many of the roads don’t have sidewalks and cranes out number buildings anywhere you try and go.  Despite what’s being built there is a ton of stuff to do still.  I made the mistake of going out for lunch and sight seeing in the afternoon which resulted in almost passing out from the +100 temp.  People apparently also sleep during the lunch hour since I walked in to several shops where the employees were laying on the floor.  If I get some time later this week I’ll be going out later at night, the working hours run longer from what I saw on the doors due to the afternoon break (kind of like Spain).  In fact Dubai seems to be a mix of all the neat things from other cultures - the relaxed but always going Spaniards, the hospitality and attentiveness of India, and even the German efficiency in the hotel for check in.  I even was in a coffee shop where they served a small glass of water with the espresso (only seen that in Vienna).  I didn’t do a ton today other than catching up with email and putting some last minute updates on presensentation for both this week and next.  I’m presenting the next two days and then flying to Bahrain to meet with some customers before heading back home on Saturday night.  Will be sure to post some pictures later when I get a chance.

“The mechanism behind ear movements is sophisticated,” says Bastiaan ter Meulen, who led the ear wiggling study, accepted for publication in the journal Clinical Neurophysiology.

Unlike other facial muscles, ear muscles have their own accessory nucleus, a control area for muscle function, in the brainstem, says ter Meulen, a researcher at Erasmus MC, a university medical centre in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

“Compared to animals, especially bats and cats, this nucleus is rather small in humans,” he says. (Source)