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Suitably contemplative-looking pose. I am really thinking "Where the heck am I?" or "I hope my three liters of water does not fall out!"
On July 1, 2006, I was at the northern terminus of the Continental Divide Trail (CDT) located in Glacier National Park. A long brown path lead before me… taking me wherever I chose. In this case, I chose the Mexican border at Antelope Wells. Four months and many footsteps later, I arrived.
My journey on the Continental Divide Trail was perhaps the most difficult of all the long trails I've hiked, and perhaps the most frustrating as well. It is a trail that is not completed, involves frequent route finding, and is still rough around the edges.
The CDT was also perhaps the most rewarding of the trails I've hiked:
- I saw a grizzly bear in the Bob Marshall Wilderness.
- I heard the howl of wolves in the wild.
- I cherish a memory of being on top of Temple Pass in the Winds one glorious morning.
- I stood on a ridge in Montana and Idaho and saw NOTHING around but for the mountains.
- I looked over the snow-covered Colorado Rockies and again fell in love with my chosen home.
- I caught the most intense sunrise of my life in New Mexico, as I started my last full day on the trail.
The rawness, intensity, wildness, and the rough edges are indeed what made my time on the trail so rewarding.
Why the Continental Divide Trail?
It would be misleading to deny that part of the allure of doing the CDT was finishing the Triple Crown of backpacking. It certainly was an achievement worth striving for. Being able to complete the Appalachian, Pacific Crest and Continental Divide Trails was more than just having a tchotchke on my wall, however. The real reward was being able to experience living in the mountains for months at time not once, not twice, but three times. I feel fortunate to have had the time, money, health, and desire to have extended outdoor journeys.
And how to spend time in the outdoors? By hiking through my adopted home in the West.
Far different from the dense hardwoods, green cover, and crowded spaces of my native Rhode Island, there is something about the wide open spaces and austere beauty found in the western landscape that appeals to me. I now consider Colorado and surrounding areas my home.
And what better way to see my adopted home then to walk it one step at a time?
The Gear Used
After many years and miles of backpacking, I have become a minimalist in terms of the gear I use. I prefer this term to 'ultralight' or 'lightweight,' as it is more reflective of my philosophy. I take only the gear I need for a given trip for my own personal comfort, safety, and fun levels. The emphasis is not on the most expensive (or even the lightest) gear, but the gear that does the job for me and does it well for a particular trip. Some of my gear and clothing is from MontBell, some of it is from the Army surplus store.
On the CDT, my base pack weight hovered around 9 pounds. The ubiquitous blue foam pad from XYZ Mart, a lightweight aluminum pot from the thrift store and a polyester dress shirt comprise my kit. On social backpacking trips (more camping, less hiking) the base pack weight is heavier (a box of wine adds weight!).
Overall, my gear reflects how I enjoy the outdoors: I use the gear to spend time in the outdoors. I don't spend time in the outdoors to use gear. Keep it simple. Make it work. Let me enjoy myself. And my gear for the CDT allowed me to spend four wonderful months walking the backbone.
Below is a glimpse at my evolving gear list to give you an idea of how I went from traditional backpacker to a more minimalist (some would say 'dirt bagger!') approach for the CDT.
|Vermont's Long Trail 1997
|Appalachian Trail 1998
|Vermont's Long Trail 1999
|Pacific Crest Trail 2002
|Colorado Trail 2004
|Continental Divide Trail 2006
|EMS 5500 (1996 Model)
|EMS 5500 (1996 Model)
|Camp Trails Scirroco (3500 CI)
|LWGEAR – One Pound Pack (all mesh)
|LWGEAR – One Pound Pack (all mesh)
|Six Moon Designs Essence (2006 Version)
|Walrus Swift
|Walrus Swift
|Walrus Swift
|Campmor 8×10 Silnylon Tarp
|Oware 5×7 SilNylon Tarp
|Six Moon Designs Gatewood Cape
|Feathered Friends Hummingbird
|Feathered Friends Hummingbird
|Feathered Friends Hummingbird
|Feathered Friends Hummingbird
|Feathered Friends Hummingbird
|Feathered Friends Hummingbird
|Z-Rest (cut down)
|Generic blue foam pad (cut down)
|MSR Alpine Cookset
|MSR Alpine Cookset
|K-Mart Alum Pot
|K-Mart Alum Pot (a little beat up)
|K-Mart Alum Pot (really beat up)
|K-Mart Alum Pot (a friend says it should be thrown away!)
|MSR Whisperlite
|MSR Whisperlite
|Alcohol Stove
|Alcohol Stove
|Alcohol Stove
|Alcohol Stove
|2x Nalgene Bottles
|2x Nalgene Bottles
|2x Gatorade bottles
|2x Gatorade Bottles
|2x Gatorade Bottles
|2x Gatorade Bottles
|1-gallon Plastic jug
|Nalgene Cantene
|Nalgene Cantene
|Nalgene Cantene
|Nalgene Cantene
|PUR Microfilter
|Polar Pure
|Polar Pure
|Polar Pure
|MP-1 Tabs
|Iodine Tabs
|Generic Fleece Pullover
|Generic Fleece Pullover
|Generic Fleece Pullover
|Marmot Driclime Windshirt
|Marmot Driclime Windshirt
|MontBell Light Shell Jacket
|MontBell UL Rainpants
|MontBell UL Rainpants
|PVC Rainjacket
|PVC Rainjacket
|Generic Nylon Rainjacket
|Generic Nylon Rainjacket
|GoLite Wisp
|GoLite Wisp
|LL Bean Cresta Hikers
|LL Bean Cresta Hikers
|Asolo 535s
|various running/trail shoes
|Nike Air Pegasus
|various running/trail shoes
|BASE PACK WEIGHT (estimated)
|30 lbs
|28 lbs
(weighed at Boiling Springs ATC office)
|17 lbs
|13 lbs
|10 lbs
(I had a digital scale for this kit)
|9 lbs
(I had a digital scale for this kit)
- I did not include most of my clothing, as that has changed very little from 1997. I still hike in shorts, wear generic polypro, and wear a synthetic hat. I may wear a long sleeve shirt, wear sunglasses, and/or use a boonie hat for sun protection. I also use running socks with lighter footwear. Other than that, my clothing hasn't changed much.
- I used the same sleeping bag from 1997 until 2006. It really is worth paying more money for a good bag, and I did put some new down in it after the PCT. After the CDT, it was time for a new bag.
- Also not included are the weights of sundry items that were reduced because of equipment used. (A plastic bottle vs. a metal bottle for fuel, for example.)
- My full gear list reflects my May 2009 gear.
Looking over my list, you can see a big drop from my AT gear to my Long Trail 1999 gear. After humping a 50-pound pack over the mountains for over 2,000 miles, I vowed to NEVER DO THAT AGAIN!
My shorter hikes (the Long Trail and the Colorado Trail) were used to refine my techniques a bit. My current gear list is more or less reflective of my 2002 PCT gear list, but with refinements: frameless pack, down bag, trail shoes instead of boots, alcohol stove, and aluminum pot. I can picture doing all my future long walks with my PCT 2002 gear. I would not want to do any of my long walks with my AT 1998 gear!
After the Long Trail in 1999, there was a gradual decline in my base pack weight. I am at the point where I can only get lower if I spend more money for shaving ounces rather than pounds and/or going more minimalist and choosing my seasons with care. It gets to the point that I have to ask myself how much money and effort is worth spending to lose more weight in my pack? I'm lazy and not very motivated, mind you! :)
Photo Essay
Start of the trail in Glacier National Park. Obviously, the trail must be well marked all the way to Mexico!
Home-sweet-home for four months. A Gatewood Cape was quick to set up, simple to use, and worked well for my 'hike all day and camp less' style of backpacking.
Heart Lake in Yellowstone reminded me of Maine.
Temple Pass in the Winds. This is why we backpack.
I loved the expansiveness of the Great Divide Basin. The Oregon Buttes were a landmark for many pioneers on the Oregon Trail.
Zirkel Wilderness, Colorado. I'm back home!
Sometimes my favorite memories are the more subtle ones, like aspen leaves on the trail.
The snow-covered mountains foretold an early winter, but the views were stunning.
Peeking out from my snow-covered shelter. Winter did come early! (Sept 21!)
Snow in the San Juans.
Interesting trail markers on the CDT in New Mexico!
Still autumn in the lower elevations of New Mexico.
One of the reasons northern New Mexico was one of the highlights of the CDT for me.
Windmills are important to any CDT hiker in New Mexico!
Not on the "official" CDT, but the history buff in me could not pass up the Gila Wilderness and the cliff dwellings.
My last full day on the trail started with this sunrise over the Hatchitas.
At the Mexican border after four months, 2,500+ miles, six pairs of shoes and many Snickers bars!
Final Thoughts
Any person who hikes the long trails is asked "Why go?" There are many answers: the physical challenge, being immersed in the wilderness for months at a time, the joy of seeing new sights every day, the camaraderie of people we meet along the way.
Ultimately, the reason I go is for the journey itself.
I hiked the CDT during the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark expedition. When I finished the CDT, the words of Meriwether Lewis during his own travels in Montana came to mind: "As we passed on, it seemed as those scenes of visionary enchantment would never have an end."
I think that is why many of us walk the long trails: to continue the scenes of visionary enchantment. We don't want them to end.
And we hope to see them again in the future.


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The push for reform is being spearheaded by a new government watchdog group.
Dan Krassner and Ben Willcox created Integrity Florida to make government more transparent. It appears to be working.
They've only been in business for one year, but already the dynamic duo has a chance to make major changes to state ethics laws.
"Florida is leading the country in corruption, and it's time to crack down," Krassner said.
At a pre-legislative session forum in the state Capitol on Wednesday, House Speaker Will Weatherford sang the groups praises.
"I though Integrity Florida's report talking about 75 percent of the money spent on campaigns today is outside of the campaign is eye opening," Weatherford said.
Weatherford and Senate President Don Gaetz have made ethics reform a priority, vowing to pass the first comprehensive reform package in Florida in 36 years.
"We don't believe that public office ought to be an opportunity for private gain," Gaetz said.
The 52-page reform bill has already passed one committee in the senate. Krassner says there's lot of good stuff inside, but there's also provisions hurting the cause.
The bill allows law enforcement agencies to pass leads on to the state ethic commission. It allows the state to garnish wages of people who don't pay their ethics fines. But it also gives politicians caught lying on their financial disclosure forms 30 days to fix the mistake.
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Had the change been in place in 2010, former state Sen. Jim Norman could have simply added a half-million dollar home to a form and avoided the ethics commission.
Legislative leaders are also vowing to shut the revolving door between the Legislature and lobbyists after finding out that the state's last two House speakers have joined up to open their own Tallahassee lobbying firm.

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Well into the 20th century, American weather forecasting was not a rigorous science, but an "art," as a National Research Council report stated in 1918. Forecasters knew, among other things, that weather generally moved from the west; that high barometric pressure indicated cold temperatures; and that low pressure meant rain. They would collect data by telegraph, make charts and provide forecasts, which were often faulty. Weathermen were popular objects of ridicule.
By the early 1940s, however, American universities were training thousands of military weather forecasters to see the atmosphere as a dynamic global system driven by powerful high-altitude winds. During World War II, this approach helped determine the timing of crucial Allied operations such as the D-Day invasion.
In large part, this transformation of American meteorology stemmed from one gregarious, fun-loving Swedish scientist: Carl-Gustaf Rossby, who founded the country's first meteorology program at MIT in 1928, gave the discipline mathematical rigor and designed the curriculum for those World War II forecasters. Rossby literally added a new dimension — the vertical one — to forecasting, by identifying and mathematically describing the powerful high-altitude winds that influence weather, which let scientists model the whole atmosphere.
"He was the foremost meteorologist of his generation," says Kerry Emanuel, the Breene M. Kerr (1951) Professor of Atmospheric Science at MIT. "Rossby wanted to bring weather forecasting from the 19th century into the 20th century."
Achieving that aim once made Rossby famous: Time magazine ran a cover story on the "high-spirited" Swede in the 1950s, when meteorologists, including a stellar group at MIT, were ushering forecasting into the computer age. His influence remains with us: Those red and blue lines denoting warm and cold fronts on weather maps were Rossby's idea. He also mapped and named the "jet stream." Yet few people today know the tale of Rossby and MIT meteorology.
The wind beneath their wings
Rossby began studying meteorology at Norway's Geophysical Institute in 1919. That same year, a new approach to forecasting — later dubbed the "Bergen School" — came from one of the institute's scientists, Vilhelm Bjerknes, who proposed that weather systems were produced by collisions between masses of cold and warm air, with the cold air undercutting the warm air. He called these collision areas "fronts."
In 1925, Rossby joined the U.S. Weather Bureau, hoping to bring the new ideas to America. But he was largely ignored, except when he angered his stodgy superiors by providing a freelance forecast for famed aviator Charles Lindbergh's flight to Mexico.
Rossby soon landed at MIT, founded the meteorology program and began collecting upper-atmosphere data. In 1931, MIT meteorologists bought a Cessna monoplane and put weather instruments on board. Professor Daniel Sayre performed six months of daily flights from East Boston (now Logan) Airport, often in poor conditions, although the scientists played down the risks.
"The number of forced landings was very small and only one major repair was required," Rossby noted dryly in a summary he wrote for the 1932 MIT President's Report.
A better method involved equipping weather balloons with radiosondes, probes that sent back high-altitude data. Rossby's great breakthrough, in 1939, came from this data: He found that the upper atmosphere contained long, slow-moving waves of air, extending for hundreds of miles, that twist over mountain ranges and amplify when they collide. We now call them Rossby waves.
"It was a discovery of the basic dynamical building block of the weather," Emanuel says. The waves showed how much a three-dimensional knowledge of the atmosphere was necessary for weather forecasting, as Bjerknes had suspected. Rossby's equations describing the waves helped forecasting become a kind of applied physics, as a branch of fluid dynamics.
"Rossby did a lot to establish that philosophy of weather analysis in the United States," says Norman Phillips, an eminent retired meteorologist from MIT.
Rossby accomplished this with panache, holding court in Cambridge's finer restaurants; Time said Rossby was "so full of bounce he could hardly stay on the floor." Yet he was also eyeing a return home. "I'm quite convinced my dad meant to move back to Sweden with my mother in the 1930s, but he was having so much fun in this country, and his skills were so appreciated, he couldn't break loose," says his son Thomas Rossby PhD '66, an oceanographer at the University of Rhode Island. "Then the threat of World War II got bigger and bigger, so they stayed."
Weathering the war
Indeed, World War II dramatically increased the need for forecasting. The U.S. military set up university training programs in meteorology, starting at MIT, and Rossby designed the curriculum, while becoming a consultant to U.S. Secretary of War Henry Stimson.
"He knew how to work his way through the world and get things done," Thomas Rossby says.
By 1944, thousands of military officers had completed graduate-level training in meteorology, 994 of them at MIT. Uniquely, MIT's program included 25 women. A black lieutenant, Wallace P. Reed, also completed MIT's program in 1942 and then commanded the military's all-black weather unit at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.
Rossby formally left MIT in 1939. Sverre Pettersen, a Norwegian meteorologist and another adherent of the Bergen School approach, replaced Rossby as program head at MIT, then joined the war effort in 1942. Pettersen became one of a half-dozen core D-Day forecasters, as the upper-air specialist planning the Allied invasion of Normandy. By most accounts, this was a fraught process, especially when terrible weather postponed the planned June 5, 1944, landing date; storms were overhead, and another seemed to be blowing in from the Atlantic.
In his memoir, Pettersen writes that on June 5, conditions in the upper atmosphere changed: "[T]he strong and almost straight current [at high altitudes over the Atlantic] that had dominated the scene the whole week had suddenly changed into a wave-shaped pattern." That meant, he told his superiors on June 5, that the storm drifting in from the Atlantic "cannot continue to move eastward as fast as I have predicted earlier," giving the Allies a weather window for a June 6 landing.
Later, some accounts cast Pettersen as opposing a June 6 landing, something he rebuts in his book, saying it was precisely his familiarity with high-altitude winds that let him recognize the opportunity. Certainly, military leaders acknowledged his work. General Dwight Eisenhower, the Allied supreme commander, wrote to Pettersen, praising him for his "reconciliation of differences in forecasting methods," adding that Pettersen's work deserved "very special commendation as an outstanding contribution to the success of the Allied invasion."
Computers and Olympians
By the 1950s, Rossby did return to work in Sweden, soon after mapping the fast-moving, high-altitude winds he called the "jet stream," named for the World War II planes that encountered them. But the approach Rossby championed had taken hold in the United States, and MIT's program enjoyed a new golden age. By the mid-1950s, it boasted the path-breaking meteorologist Jule Charney, who had constructed the first computerized forecast with mathematician John von Neumann in 1950. Other prominent MIT faculty meteorologists included Phillips, Victor Starr and Edward Lorenz.
Phillips' own modeling of the atmosphere — dividing it into two layers — proved highly influential, while Starr and Lorenz both performed important work on the atmosphere's general circulation. And they all created an intellectual atmosphere in which ideas circulated freely.
"There was a very active group that established the spirit that guided the department," recalls Phillips, now 89 and living in Merrimack, N.H. "It was unusual to have a closed office door. That applied to both students and faculty."
Students of the period remember it fondly, too. "The meteorology department in those days was like a dream," says Joseph Pedlosky '60, SM '60, PhD '63, a research scientist emeritus in physical oceanography at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts. "Jule Charney, Norman Phillips, Victor Starr, Ed Lorenz — they were all Olympians."
Lorenz — a graduate of MIT's military training program of the 1940s — added a new insight to forecasting in 1961, when he discovered that rounding a few digits off one decimal number in a computer simulation of weather changed its entire long-term pattern. This "sensitive dependence on initial conditions" is the founding insight of chaos theory, and implies something deep about nature and forecasting: Little changes in nature can produce large effects, which is one reason weather lacks the highly repeating patterns forecasters long sought. Instead, slightly imprecise measurements or overlooked details can produce inaccurate long-term forecasts.
Rossby did not see this latter development. In 1957, he died of a heart attack at age 58. "Everybody was hoping for another 10 or 20 years out of Rossby," says James Fleming, a historian of science at Colby College in Maine. "It came as a great shock." But his legacy lives on in our forecasts — and those red and blue front lines.


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2010-11: Named 2010-11 Northeast Conference Player of the Year. First Team All-Conference. Honorable Mention All-American. Led the league in scoring at 19.5 points per game. Third in rebounding at 8.9 per game. Had 12 double-doubles on the season. Scored 20 or more points 14 times, and 30 or more four times. Named NEC Player of the Week a league-best five times. Named Preseason All-NEC. Had six points and team-high seven rebounds to go along with two blocks in season-opening win over Hartford (11/13). Had a career-high 34 points to go along with nine rebounds, four assists and two steals in win at Army (11/15). Posted 24 points and 11 rebounds for his first double-double of the season in win at UMBC (11/20). Grabbed a career-high 14 rebounds in win over Monmouth (11/27). Had 15 points and nine rebounds in loss at Albany (12/11). Had a double-double with 25 points and 10 rebounds in win over Niagara (12/19). Had 19 points and eight boards, scoring his 1,000th career point vs. UNH (12/22). Became the quickest player to 1,000 career points (68 games) under head coach Howie Dickenman. Had 17 points, seven rebounds, four assists and four steals in win over Brown (12/29). Scored 24 points and grabbed seven boards in win over UMass (1/3). Had second double-double of the season with 10 points and 14 rebounds in win over SFNY (1/6). Scored 31 points and hit a career-best six threes in loss to LIU (1/8). Scored 27 and grabbed eight boards and had career-high five steals in win at Sacred Heart (1/13). Fourth double-double of the season with 28 points and 14 boards in win over Monmouth (1/20). Fifth double-double of the season with 23 points and 10 rebounds in win over FDU (1/22). Third straight double-double with 18 points and 11 rebounds in win over the Mount (1/27). Had seventh double-double with 18 points and 10 rebounds to go along with three assists and four blocks in win over SFPA (2/3). Posted eighth double-double of the season with 31 points and 10 boards in win at RMU (2/5). Had ninth double-double of the season with 23 points, 11 rebounds, six blocks and six steals in win over Bryant (2/9). Had 10th double-double with 27 points and a career-high 16 rebounds in loss at Bryant (2/12). Scored a career-high 35 points along with nine rebounds in loss to Quinnipiac (2/19). Had 27 points and 12 boards for his 11th double-double of the season in loss to St. Francis (NY) (2/24). Scored 23 points and had 10 rebounds in loss at Long Island (2/26).
2009-10: Sat out the season due to injury.
2008-09: Named Second Team All-Northeast Conference. Named NEC Player of the Week once during the season. Started 26 of 28 games played. averaged 34.1 minutes per game. Led the team and was third in the conference averaging 16.5 points per game. Led the team with 32 three-point field goals. Shot 52.3 percent (168-of-334) from the field. Shot 80.2 percent (93-of-116) from the free-throw line. Averaged 5.8 rebounds a game to lead the team. Had seven or more rebounds 12 times. Had 44 blocks, the highest total on the team and the third-best total in the NEC. Had two or more blocks in a game 11 times. Posted three double-doubles on the season. Score 20 or more points 13 times, including a career-high 33 at Albany on November 22.
2007-08: Named to the Northeast Conference All-Rookie Team. Named NEC Rookie of the Week twice during the season. Finished second on the team averaging 12.7 points per game. Led the team in field goal percentage hitting 55.2 percent (144-of-261) of his shots. Also shot 37.5 percent (21-of-56) from three. Led the NEC and the team in blocks with 63, the fourth-highest single season total in school history. He was the first freshman to lead the league in blocks since 1996-97. Posted two or more blocks in a game 16 times and five or more four times. Had a career-high seven blocks against St. Francis (PA) on January 10. Started 26 of 28 games played including his final 25 games. Averaged 29.2 minutes per game. Second on the team at 5.4 rebounds per game. Averaged 13.8 points and 6.2 rebounds per game in conference play. Scored double figures in 21 of 29 games played including 20 or more five times. Had a career-high 26 points against Wagner on February 2. Posted 10 or more rebounds four times and six or more 13 times. Had three double-doubles on the season. Shot 75.6 percent (59-of-78) from the free throw line.
Before CCSU: Played two seasons at Ossining High School in Ossining, NY. Averaged 23 points and 12 rebounds per game in his senior season at Ossining. Named an All-League selection as a junior and a senior. Twice named an All-Section selection. Named First Team Tri-County as a senior. Team finished 17-4 in his senior season and won its first playoff game in 10 seasons. Named a Journal News First Team All-Star.


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The Quadstar skate breaks the mold of what materials a mid level skate should be made from and it takes performance beyond most brands high end boots. All for a fraction of the price!The thermoplastic in the heel allows you to mold your boot with a hairdryer to obtain a custom fit in under 10 minutes. This is especially good for skaters with skinny or wide ankles. The boot is made with 100% Genuine Australian leather and features replaceable rubber bumper toe protection, an adjustable velcro top strap and rear heel loop to put your laces through.This version of the Quadstar comes in two USA color versions.
Bont's method of producing skates by hand inside out is a process that is far more skill intensive, time consuming and thus resulting in far greater costs than the current mainstream skate construction methods, but one that allows the Bont range of skating skates to lead the market in performance. The Bont production line has been engineered by founder Inze Bont to allow for our monocoque skates to be hand made in the most time efficient manner possible. This is a process which continues to be developed and refined. Inadequate processes such as using generic vacuum boxes for curing the carbon have been replaced by methods such as pressure wrapping which provides four atmospheres of pressure rather than the traditional one atmosphere from vacuum forming. Bont's drive for design innovation is matched by its innovation in manufacturing processes.
Check out the last design, footbed, liner, anti-stretch, carbon fiber and upper tabs for information on the full process.
A last is a plastic replica of a foot that the boot is built around. At Bont, we have been perfecting our lasts since 1975 and the process is ongoing. Unlike the standard shoe last many companies use, we put extra effort into creating and developing our lasts so that they fit right out of the box.
The footbed is the first part of the shoe added to the last. It is made in-house from a heat moldable EVA. The footbed is 65A hardness and only 3mm thick which makes it extremely light weight and heat moldable.
Our liners have been chosen out of hundreds of liners. They are not only light weight and strong, but fights odour and is not easily broken down by sweat. Our liner material include Microfiber, Suede-L and Durolite.
Between the outer skin and the liner, we add a material that is proprietary to Bont to stop the boot from stretching over time. This material has similar strength characteristics to Kevlar. This material is stitched to the outer skin and bonded to the liner so it can never move or be removed, it becomes part of the boots structure. This layer is the reason that Bont boots do not stretch out as much as other brands of boots over time.
This boot utilises closed cell memory foam that will not retain water assisting in maintaining a lighter shoe during wet conditions as well as ensuring sweat which can begin to break down the durability of the shoe is not absorbed.
Epoxy or polyepoxide is a thermosetting epoxide polymer that cures when mixed with a catalyzing agent or "hardener". The process of polymerization is called "curing", can be controlled through temperature and choice of resin and hardener compounds; the process can take minutes to hours.
Resin development is something that we have been doing for over 36 years. Formulating a resin that is super stiff, yet becomes moldable at low temperatures and has a fast cure time is critical for our unique requirement which is why we are probably the only cycle shoe manufacturer who develops our own resins in-house.
Our resin becomes soft at just 60°C (140°F) which is the lowest in the industry. Once you heat the resin, mold the shoe and let it set, it is permanently set without the need to remold. You can also reheat the resin as many times as you like.
The temperature of the air and the amount of humidity are critical in determining the amount of hardener that needs to be added to the resin. That is why we have a computer that mixes the resin and hardener together and dispenses the resin after measuring the air temperature and humidity.
Most manufacturers use a process known in the industry as pre-preg. This is where the resin is "pre-impregnated" into the carbon fiber. In virtually all applications, the resin is chosen by the carbon fiber manufacturer in a one shoe fits all kind of deal. The shoe manufacturer has no way of altering the resin to meet the heat moldablilty requirements of modern shoes and that is why they require very high temperatures to make the shoes slightly heat moldable. Pre-preg manufacturing is fine for bike frames or crank sets that do not need to be heat molded by the rider, but they are unsuitable for the construction of cycling shoes.
Bont boots are the most heat moldable boots available. Bont's proprietary resin has been developed and perfected over 36 years to be an extremely stiff resin that becomes pliable at relatively low temperatures. Unlike other skates which are moldable only in select locations, all Bont boots are able to be molded over the entire base providing skaters not only with the most anatomically designed boot on the market today but also with the ability to fine-tune the fit of the entire boot to give a customized fit.
Conventional quad skates offer a "dress shoe" type shaping. Although highly aesthetic this will cause the toes along with the metatarsals to be overly constricted, compressing the nerves between the metatarsals which often results in the common "hot foot" sensation.Bont skates anatomical shaping allows the foot to function in its most efficient and anatomically correct position.
The anatomical heel cup shaping of Bont quad skates provides increased stability and more power through your push. This stabilization is achieved without any mechanical operation or over tightening of straps/laces allowing for increased comfort and blood circulation. The heel cup is fully heat moldable in the oven.
The rubber protective front bumper protects the front of your boot from impact. It can be replaced by using a hair dryer to make the rubber warm and carefully peeled off. Then use a strong adhesive, such as super glue, to attach the bumper to the boot. Replacement protective bumper come as a set of two bumpers (left and right).


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UMass Lowell will resume on-campus instruction, research and campus life for Fall 2020. View the plan for more info.
Edwin L. Aguirre
In general, both sexes exhibited "significant difference" between their stated tastes and preferences and their actual dating behavior online. Both males and females tend to be more flexible when it comes to a person's location, age and height. However, females are observed to be much stricter about the marital status, number of children and education level of their potential date.
Read: "I still have a chance."
Got Mail?
On average, men send more messages but receive fewer replies than women. And women are more likely to be contacted but are less likely to reply.
A case of playing "hard to get?"
Selfies vs. Security
Males tend to be more visual, giving more emphasis on a female's physical appearance. So the more photos a female user uploads to the site, the more likely she will get messages and replies. On the other hand, female users give more weight to the socioeconomic status of potential romantic partners.
Women: Go ahead and post those selfies!
Men: Looks aren't everything.
Age Ain't Nothin' but a Number..Or is it?
As a male gets older, he searches for relatively younger and younger women. A female in her twenties is more likely to look for older males, but as a female gets older, she becomes more open toward younger males.
Cupid's Arrow Only Reaches so Far
Geographic distance plays a role in the number of messages exchanged between genders. In men, interest in communication decreases quickly with increasing distance, while women, especially those living in big cities, tend to send messages and reply to men in big cities, even though they may be hundreds of miles away.
"These results can provide valuable guidelines in designing a 'recommendation engine' for potential dates," notes Liu.


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Gordon Productions brings another fine musical comedy to the Hoogland Center for the Arts for six performances. Set in a North Carolina church in 1938, the Sanders Family Singers will have you clapping, singing, laughing and cheering with their stories and traditional and bluegrass gospel music. Local talent includes: Tara Cowan, Kelsi Frost, Sherry Frachey, Bobby Herpel, Dan McLaughlin, Tom Myers, Kayla Primm and Donn Stephens. Don Russell directs. A buffet luncheon is offered at 12:30 p.m. on Sept. 4 for $16. Reservations are required for the meal.
Smoke on the Mountain
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Oh, Kristen Stewart, we want to move past your cheating scandal, but you're making it hard for us.
While promoting her new film On the Road, Stewart, 22, told Newsweek that she doesn't really care if people are mad at her about cheating on Robert Pattinson last July with married director of Snow White and the Huntsman Rupert Sanders. Although, she did go on to kind of apologize.
"I apologize to everyone for making them so angry. It was not my intention." K-Stew said, adding, "But honestly, I don't care because it doesn't keep me from doing my sh*t."
Nothing like a good sorry-I'm-not-sorry. Fans definitely took notice—and got pissed off at her all over again.
People make mistakes (and ticking off Twihards is a big one) but why does Kristen continue to feel the need to defend her actions? She and Rob are allegedly back together—although they've both remained tight lipped about the relationship. She's been consistently
gorgeous on the red carpet and is working hard to shed her tween heroine image. Things are going so well for her despite her press aversion that I just wish she'd go back to staying mum about her private life. Then we can focus on her acting skills again.
Keep making movies, Kristen, and leave your personal feelings out of interviews. Haters are going to hate regardless, so don't give them more ammo.
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Welcome to EDAR
EDAR (Everyone Deserves A Roof) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides unique mobile shelters to homeless men, women and children.
An EDAR is a four-wheeled unit, based on a cart design that provides security for belongings, privacy and protection from the elements. During the day, the EDAR is a compact portable unit with sturdy wheels and waterproof protection. The steering is maneuverable and there is a brake and locking mechanism which ensures the unit will not move on its own.
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Name: Ryan Hansen
Hometown: San Diego
Age: 27
Current gig: Stars as Chambers ("The Douche") on TheWB.com's Rockville and as Kyle Bradway on Starz's Party Down
Romantic status: Married
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1.color>size> Communication is the most important thing in a relationship. But if a guy won't listen or talk to you, take off your bra. Then he'll focus a little more.
2.color>size> You're beautiful. You don't have to cover up your face with so much makeup.
3.color>size> We love it when you laugh at our jokes, even when they're not funny.
4.color>size> Being spontaneous at times is a must. Being spontaneous all the time is a crazy person.
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Wisconsin stores can charge fee for using credit card
Some retailers say they won't pass cost to customers
Paying with plastic may soon cost shoppers more.
Stores in Wisconsin can now charge customers a service fee for using their credit card.
Big stores such as Target and Walmart said they won't pass their credit card fees on to their customers, even though they can, while smaller businesses, who may struggle the most with those fees, say they can't pass them on because some fear it could cost them more in the long run.
"The fees of the credit card companies is certainly a lot of money," said Michael Glorioso of Glorioso's Italian Market on Brady Street.
The same is true for Suzanne Rafenstein at her boutique in Milwaukee's Third Ward, Embelazar.
"Every transaction I'm paying a fee for. Every transaction I'm paying a percentage on," Rafenstein said.
It might seem tempting pass the cost on to their customers, but both said that's not going to happen.
"It's just not something I can do. I wouldn't put a fee on someone's receipt saying, 'If you're going to be paying by credit card you'll be paying this much more,'" Rafenstein said.
"Is that even something you would consider? " WISN 12 News reporter Kent Wainscott asked Glorioso.
"Absolutely not. I can't imagine us telling our customers we're charging them an additional 4 percent just because they're using their credit card," Glorioso said.
The new guidelines allow merchants to charge credit card users a fee of up to 4 percent at checkout.
If they do that, they have to post signs notifying customers, and Mary Kay Wilford was already on the lookout for that.
"You looked for the signs when you came in here today?" Wainscott asked her.
"Yeah, it's like, 'OK, I'm looking.' Not here," Wilford said.
She said she would understand if a merchant tried to recoup those credit fees, but would still object to the charge.
"Absolutely. I don't think that's fair, but they (have) got to do business, I guess," Wilford said.
Other consumers are likely to be less forgiving.
"That would bother me a lot. Yeah, 4 percent added on would bother me a lot," Matt Robbins said.
"Enough to take your business elsewhere in some cases?" Wainscott asked.
"Yes," Robbins said.
These new rules are a part of lawsuit settlement involving Visa and Mastercard.
The fees don't apply for using American Express or a debit card.
Most retail experts believe that, for now, very few merchants will pass that fee along at all, but consumers can look for the signs at the door, the register and on their receipts indicating if there is a fee.


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Solid Second Half Gives Men's Lacrosse 8-4 Win At Johns Hopkins
BALTIMORE – Loyola University Maryland held Johns Hopkins University scoreless for the final 29-minutes, 18-seconds of regulation on Saturday afternoon at Homewood Field, and the Greyhounds snapped a 13-game losing skid to the Blue Jays with an 8-4 victory to close the regular-season.
Loyola's last victory in the series came in 1999 when the Greyhounds beat the host Blue Jays, 14-5. The previous seven games, however, had been decided by only 13 goals with Johns Hopkins winning four times by a single tally.
The seventh-ranked Greyhounds opened the second half on a man-advantage that carried over from late in the second quarter, and after the teams returned to even strength, Justin Ward skipped a pass to Sean O'Sullivan at the top of the offense, and the midfielder scored on a low shot from 13 yards out 36 ticks into the half.
O'Sullivan's goal put Loyola (11-3 overall) in front 5-3, but the 11th-ranked Blue Jays (8-5) pulled back within a goal just five seconds later when they won the faceoff on a Greyhounds' violation. Mike Poppleton ran the ball into the offensive zone and snuck a shot into the top right corner at 14:19.
That, however, was the last goal Johns Hopkins would score in the game. Greyhounds' goalkeeper Jack Runkel made six of his 10 saves in the final half, and the rest of the Blue Jays' 11 shots went off goal.
Johns Hopkins also committed 10 turnovers in the second half, and the Greyhounds had just eight in the entire game.
Mike Sawyer scored his third of the day, rolling off a short-stick defensive midfielder and slinging a sidearm shot into the net with 6:10 to go in the third quarter, pushing Loyola out to a two-goal advantage for the third time in the game.
The score remained 6-4 Loyola until nearly six minutes had passed in the fourth quarter. Davis Butts beat a short-stick from below goal-line extended on the right side and bounced a shot past Johns Hopkins goalkeeper Pierce Bassett.
Loyola tacked on its eighth and final goal with 3:13 remaining on a man-up possession. O'Sullivan faked a pass to the right and doubled back with one to Kevin Ryan on the left side of the crease, and Ryan finished past Bassett.
The Greyhounds opened scoring in the game early in the first quarter after Scott Ratliff picked up a ground ball off a Blue Jays' turnover and sent the ball to Ryan who carried it into the offensive half for Loyola. He then sent a pass to Josh Hawkins who scored from 10 yards out at the 12:20 mark.
Johns Hopkins, however, tied the game 2:25 later when John Kaestner scored on a fading jumper after running from 'X'. The Blue Jays took a 2-1 lead at 7:23 when Brandon Benn ripped a high-to-low shot off a John Ranagan pass.
The Blue Jays held the lead for nearly five minutes until Zach Herreweyers rolled from behind the cage and snuck a no-look underhand shot into the net, tying the score at 2-2- with 2:24 left in the second quarter.
Less than a minute later, Sawyer struck with his first of the game with a sidearm shot after Harry Kutner rolled back to the middle and passed it to Sawyer.
Sawyer then scored his second of the game with 13:54 to go in the second quarter, finishing the end of a transition run for Loyola. Runkel started the sequence with a save, and Joe Fletcher picked up one of his team-high five ground balls. Hawkins ran the clear and threw a pass to Sawyer who finished with a high shot.
The goal made it 4-2 Greyhounds, but Poppleton won the faceoff for Johns Hopkins, sent a pass to Wells Stanwick who got the ball to Benn for a goal six seconds after Sawyer's at 13:48 in the second half.
Neither Loyola, nor Johns Hopkins scored after that point in the half, and the teams went to the locker room with the Greyhounds in front, 4-3.
The Blue Jays outshot Loyola 36-28 in the game, but the Greyhounds held them to a .111 shooting percentage in the game.
On the defensive end, Fletcher led the team with five ground balls, while Pat Frazier, Ratliff and Hawkins each had three. Reid Acton and Pat Laconi both picked up a pair, while Laconi and Frazier each caused six turnovers, and Acton and Hawkins had one apiece.
The Greyhounds open play in the third-annual ECAC Lacrosse League Championships on Thursday, May 2, as the No. 2 seed. They will take on No. 3-seed Ohio State Unviersity at Hobart College in Geneva, N.Y. at a to be determined time.


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Baku, November 15 – Newtimes.az
The euro zone fell into a recession in July-September, the second since the global financial crisis in 2009, as French resilience could not make up for a slump across Europe and the three-year debt crisis slowed Germanyto a crawl.
Economic output in the 17-country euro zone fell 0.1 percent in the third quarter, the EU's statistics office Eurostat said on Thursday, following a 0.2-percent drop in the second quarter.
Those two quarters of contraction put the euro zone's 9.4 trillion euro ($12 trillion) economy officially in recession, although Italy and Spain have been contracting for a year already and Greece is suffering an outright depression.
Germany and France, the euro zone's biggest economies, could not save the bloc from a double-dip recession even though both countries managed 0.2 percent growth in the quarter. Large, countries like Italy, Spain and the Netherlands all contracted and Belgium, a big exporter, stagnated.
Millions of people across Europe protested against government spending cuts that EU policymakers say are crucial to ending the debt crisis but which others blame for the economic contraction.
"We are now getting into a double dip recession which is entirely self-made," said Paul De Grauwe, an economist with the London School of Economics. "It is a result of excessive austerity in southern countries and unwillingness in the north to do anything else," he said.
Not everyone shares that view and the European Commission says labor costs are falling and exports are rising for Greece, Portugal, Spain and Ireland, arguing that austerity is a necessary evil to bring down unsustainable budget deficits.
The European Commission sees a 0.4 percent contraction for the euro zone in all of 2012.
Hopes for a recovery next year are also fading, with the European Commission saying the economy will grow just 0.1 percent in 2013.
A rebound in the euro zone could be vital for the rest of the world as the United States and China struggle with the impact of the crisis on their companies' ability to grow and prosper.
In one positive sign, Eurostat said separately that the euro zone's annual inflation fell to 2.5 percent in October from 2.6 percent in September, suggesting an end to a run of stubborn inflation that has contributed to the difficult environment.
But after months of resilience, Germany, Europe's largest economy, is seeing its companies unnerved by the crisis and demand for its goods in the euro zone and abroad is drying up.
While German gross domestic product expanded by 0.5 percent in the first quarter, it slowed to 0.3 percent in the second and weakened again in the third quarter.
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It's been a busy few weeks for Officer Alex Murphy.
First, citizens of Detroit have been lobbying hard for the city to erect a "RoboCop" statue (much to the chargin of mayor Dave Bing), and now comes word that the long-gestating remake of the 1987 cult classic may finally be moving forward.
According to Collider, Brazilian director Jose Padilha is close to signing on for a fresh take on the story of a murdered Detroit cop (played in the original film by Peter Weller) who returns to active duty when he's used as the organic battery inside an experimental cyborg body.
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Back in 2008, "Black Swan" director Darren Aronofsky was close to bringing a new "RoboCop" movie to the screen, but the project eventually fell apart due to financial difficulties. There were even rumors that Frank Miller ("Sin City," "The Spirit") would take the helm - not such a big stretch, seeing as Miller wrote both "RoboCop 2" and "RoboCop 3" in addition to shepherding the Marvel Comics spin-off series.
Padilha doesn't have a huge body of work, but he did direct the acclaimed action film "Elite Squad," which clearly shows his comfort level with guns, violence, and urban decay. And, really, when you're talking RoboCop, what more do you need?
We can't wait for the first leaked concept photos of the new 'Cop, just for the inevitable fanboy outrage.
In the meantime, get a taste of Padilha's "Elite Squad"...


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The divorce of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver is the split of two people who are now private citizens.
But Shriver's divorce filing last week also offers a reminder that we don't know nearly enough about public officials.
That failure to disclose has nothing to do with sex, housekeepers or illegitimate children. That failure to disclose is all about money. Californians simply don't know enough about the finances of elected officials to keep tabs on our elected officials.
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California's politicians file statements of their "economic interests," including income and investments. But the forms are poorly designed and make it hard to get a complete, accurate picture of what politicians are worth and their potential conflicts of interest. The forms are particularly insuffiicent in this era, when politicians are often very, very rich. Like Schwarzenegger.
In particular, the forms -- in quantifying investments -- don't ask for the specific value of an invesment or holding. Instead, they let politicians fill in ranges. And the highest range is $1 million or over. in understanding the finances of wealthy politicians, this isn't helpful. An investment of $1.2 million might be fairly minor to a billionaire like Meg Whitman, and would be unlikely to affect a politician's judgment on a policy issue. An investment of $400 million would be major and might be an area to watch for self-serving decisonmaking and conflicts of interest. But the forms would allow an investment of either size to be reported in the same way, as over $1 million.
As a result, reporters had many unanswered questions about Schwarzenegger's finances, even after seven years in office. I had hoped that the divorce would provide more details. But Shriver's filing offers no new details. And all indications are the divorce will be handled behind closed doors, with little financial disclosure that ends up in the public record.
It's hard to blame Schwarzenegger for this. Particularly since the former governor did show reporters his tax returns -- a step that the current governor, Jerry Brown, has not taken. But it is past time to change law to require a complete and exact accounting -- down to the specific dollar -- of the finances of those who govern us. We should know as much about their finances as they do.


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I personally prefer the original Evangelion TV series, warts and all, over the old Eva movies or even the new movie series. But I'll tell you one thing the new movies have that the original TV series doesn't: Pirate Asuka fighting an Angel in space. You can watch the first six-plus minutes of Gainax's newest installment of their Evangelion retelling above; the first minute is kind of a bust, but after that... ye gods, is this movie pretty. Hopefully it won't be too long before Funimation is allowed to license it for North American audiences.
Oh, a warning: The dialogue is all in Japanese and there are no subtitles. However, I imagine any Eva fan will be able to glean the meaning when Asuka screams "Baka Shinji!" near the end.
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Scouting has been active in London Ontario for over 100 years, and we have been an integral part of the history and development of our strong city.
With more than 100,000 members nationally, Scouts Canada is the nation's premier youth-serving organization.
With every new member, with every camp and every community service project, Scouts Canada makes one simple promise to Canadian youth, parents and society:
Scouts have fun adventures
discovering new things and experiences
they wouldn't discover elsewhere.
Along the way they develop into capable,
confident and well-rounded individuals,
better prepared for success in the world.
Scouts is the start of something great.
It starts with Scouts.
Scouts Canada's national office is located in Ottawa. Scouts Canada is a not-for-profit organization (Charitable Registration No. 10776 1694 RR0028) and a member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement.


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Angela's lighter chocolate tart
Nutrition and extra info
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal243
- fat13.4g
- saturates7.3g
- carbs25.8g
- sugars13.7g
- fibre1.3g
- protein4.4g
- salt0.3g
For the pastry
- 140g plain flour, plus extra for dusting
- 50g butter, cut into pieces
Butter is a dairy product made from separating whole milk or cream into fat and…
- 2 tsp cocoa powder
- 1 tbsp icing sugar
- 1 tbsp rapeseed oil
Rapeseed oil
If you want a light alternative to other cooking oils, rapeseed is a great choice and has…
- 1 medium egg yolk
- half-fat crème fraîche, to serve (optional)
For the filling
- 100g dark chocolate, 70% cocoa solids, very finely chopped
Dark chocolatedahk chok-o-let
Dark chocolate means the shiny, dark-reddish brown treat produced from the cacao bean, theobroma…
- 1 tbsp cocoa powder, plus extra ½ tsp for sifting
- ¾ tsp coffee granules
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
- 2 tbsp semi-skimmed milk
- 2 medium egg whites
- 2 tbsp dark muscovado sugar
- 85g half-fat crème fraîche
Tip the flour into a mixing bowl and remove 2 tsp (the cocoa will replace it later). Add the butter and rub into the flour until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs. Sift in the cocoa and icing sugar, then, using a round-bladed knife, stir in the oil, egg yolk and 1½-2 tbsp cold water, until the dough comes together. Gently gather into a ball, then roll out on a lightly floured surface, big enough to fit a 20cm round x 3.5cm-deep loose-bottomed flan tin. Ease the pastry into the tin, leaving a slight overhang. Lightly prick the base with a fork, then chill for about 10 mins.
Heat oven to 190C/170C fan/gas 5. Sit tin on a baking sheet. Line the pastry with foil and fill with baking beans. Blind-bake for 15 mins or until set. Carefully lift out the beans and paper, then bake the pastry case for another 10 mins or until the base is cooked. Remove, carefully trim off the overhanging pastry with a sharp knife, to give the pastry a flat edge, then leave until completely cold.
To make the filling, put the chocolate in a large bowl that will fit over a pan of simmering water without touching it. Mix the cocoa, coffee and vanilla with the milk. Pour over the chocolate. Sit the bowl over a pan of gently simmering water, stir, then immediately remove pan from the heat, with the bowl of chocolate still over the water, stirring occasionally, to check when melted. Stir the melted chocolate – it will be quite thick. Stir in 2 tbsp boiling water and the chocolate will immediately thin down and become silky smooth. Take the bowl off the pan and leave to cool slightly.
Whisk the egg whites to stiff peaks, then whisk in the sugar until thick and glossy. Fold the créme fraîche into the cooled chocolate. Fold one-third of the egg whites into the chocolate mixture using a large metal spoon, then very gently fold in the remaining whites, a third at a time, until evenly mixed in. Remove the pastry case from the tin and place on a serving plate. Spoon the filling into the case, then spread out gently and evenly. Chill for about 3 hours, or overnight, before serving. Serve with a sifting of cocoa and half-fat créme fraîche, if you like. Please note, pregnant women, the elderly, babies and toddlers, and people who are generally unwell, should avoid eating raw or partially cooked eggs.


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Of all the holiday-themed movies, books and TV shows out there, Halloween and Christmas are perhaps the most fertile breeding grounds for memorable, entertaining stories. I've got a particular fondness for the former...and not just the occasional horror marathon, but the animated and kiddie fare I enjoyed growing up. My three year-old daughter will probably enjoy The Great Pumpkin soon enough, while spookier stuff like Garfield's Holiday Adventure is probably several years away at this point. Until then, she's stuck with Curious George: A Halloween Spook Fest, a new direct-to-DVD animated movie starring everyone's favorite mischievous monkey. Lightweight, entertaining and just spooky enough to intrigue younger kids without scarring them for years, it's a fun way to welcome in the holiday.
Our story revolves around the legend of "No Noggin", a headless scarecrow that appears on Halloween to kick the hats off unsuspecting passers-by. Curious George is intrigued by this legend: though it scares him a little, he ultimately hopes the story is true. He sets out to investigate, talking to folks like the great-great-grandnephew of a local farmer who supposedly created the scarecrow from his old clothes and a perfect-fitting (and eventually stolen) pumpkin head. An old photo even suggests that the original resting place of No Noggin lies right on the property of George and his owner, The Man with the Yellow Hat. George also enjoys regular Halloween stuff like making a perfect costume, helping his friend win a "Giant Pumpkin" contest and getting ready for the local Boo Festival. Will No Noggin show up to kick off hats, terrorizing locals with headless fury? Probably not, but there's a little bit of mystery here that feels appropriate enough for this mildly spooky Halloween adventure.
It's all in good fun, and my daughter and the rest of the family enjoyed this short, 56-minute film for the most part. It sags a bit in the middle and the resolution is a little undercooked, but the terrific voice work, leisurely pace, lively music breaks and attractively simple artwork definitely help to smooth things over. Universal presents this all-new holiday special on DVD, treating us with a solid A/V presentation but tricking anyone hoping for bonus features or other additional content.
Not much to complain about here. This 480p, 1.78:1 transfer offers a pleasing, colorful image with good detail, consistent black levels and virtually no digital imperfections. There's a pleasing texture to many backgrounds and landscapes, as well as no signs of excessive DNR or other digital eyesores. I did notice some mild banding and several stray jagged edges...but they're almost expected with animated releases, whether released on DVD or Blu-ray. Overall, this is a fine effort that kids of all ages should appreciate.
The audio is definitely a bit more reserved, though it's not necessarily a problem. This Dolby Digital 5.1 presentation offers crisp dialogue, robust music cues and even a bit of channel separation on occasion. Surrounds are limited to music cues and light background ambiance, though a little more power in this area would've made the spookier moments more enjoyable. For what it is, though, I doubt many kids or parents are going to complain. Optional English SDH subtitles are also included during the main feature.
Fun, lightweight and harmless, A Halloween Boo Fest is a nice addition to the growing empire of Curious George movies, episodes and books. Though not destined to be a holiday classic, the accessible story, enjoyable music and moderately spooky atmosphere will entertain younger audiences without irritating parents in the process. Universal's DVD is similarly light, serving up a fine A/V presentation but nothing in the way of supplements. Newcomers to the franchise should rent it first, while fans of the mischievous monkey should add the low-priced Boo Fest to their regular Halloween DVD rotation. Recommended.
Randy Miller III is an affable office monkey by day and film reviewer by night. He also does freelance design work, teaches art classes and runs a website or two. In his limited free time, Randy also enjoys slacking off, juggling HD DVDs and writing in third person.


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Based on a novel by William Mulvihill, the set-up is familiar: a motley group of travelers inconvenienced by a cancelled flight are persuaded to charter an independent plane to their African destination rather than wait, only to have it collide with a cloud of locusts over the Kalahari desert, stranding them with only enough water to support a single man for half a day.
Stanley Baker, being mostly cave-bound and brooding into crackling fires ("This is what men used to do before television," Bikel notes), doesn't challenge either of these virile competitors for York's hand, as it were. In his own way, he loathes the same weakness in her that the other men have seen, but he sees it from another perspective and experiences it in his own unique way. As Whitman goes off the rails and begins killing the other males to preserve for himself a greater share of dwindling rations, Baker discovers the hard way that York's need to claim the fittest for her own outbids all morality and any responsibility to the others. One imagines Mulvihill's novel might offer more background about her character to help underpin the decisions she makes; in context, the lack of such background and contrast unfortunately suggest her selfish choices as archetypically female.
Handsomely photographed by Edwin Hillier (THE VALLEY OF GWANGI) in rocky desert locations settings that now aptly recall PLANET OF THE APES (1968), SANDS OF THE KALAHARI is presented here anamorphically in its original 2.35:1 aspect ratio. The standard disc version I screened looks good on the home screen, despite some visible limitations related to age which may be somewhat bolstered by the Blu-ray. One fault that Blu-ray can't correct is that Olive Films' transfer neglects to add day-for-night tinting to a couple of broad daylight sequences clearly tagged by the dialogue for taking place at night.


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I'm completely and totally sick of these headaches. Not that I was ever really down with them to begin with. I was fairly gleeful of late to find that I wasn't getting them with my usual frequency and ferociousness, which I ascribed to a regular workout schedule. I still believe in this, that working my muscles and heart has benefited my head. For the month of May, however, I've been feeling like my body was hell-bent on giving me a headache.
And this, perhaps, might be the source of my feeling depressed, which I wrote about at my heathen blog.
The neurological effects of migraines are interesting. I've felt shaky, nauseated, sensitive to light, really sad. I've had trouble sleeping. And my medicine isn't working. I get 6 pills a month covered by insurance. Since Sunday, I've taken three. No luck.
So I don't know what this means. I guess it just means I'm due for pain. I've had my respite, and now I'm due.
I took the girls to a parish carnival a few weekends ago. On our way back to our car, I showed them the room near the back of the church that has all the candles. You can light one and say a prayer, surrounded by statues of Mary and Jesus and Joseph, and yeah, who's that guy back there? Oh, that's St. Jude.
Patron Saint of Hopeless Cases. Patron Saint of Unending Head Pain. Patron Saint of Sad People.
Or, that cool guy with the flame on his head.
Don't you wish you could walk around like that sometimes? Decked out in a spectacular flame? And you could answer people like this. Yes, why yes. Of course I've been touched by the Holy Spirit.
I'm doing a novena to St. Jude now, but it has nothing to do with my headaches. I've learned, since being diagnosed with migraines, that there is actually something called Chronic Daily Headaches. So while I may feel desperate and like a hopeless case in the midst of this pain, I've been informed that it could be worse. Like, every day worse. That would suck.
Maybe I'll write about the novena specifics some day. Probably not.
I remember, when I was younger, the area I lived in had a weekly circular called The Penny Saver. It advertised garage sales and appliances and estate sales and pets for sale and all manner of things. There were personals in there, and tucked within the personal were spaces dedicated to St. Jude, prayers and thanks for answers received. I used to read them, even though most said exactly the same thing, and wondered why someone had to take out an ad. Multiple ads. Multiple people. All saying the same thing.
I understand now. If my novena is answered with a yes, I think I might have to rent a billboard.
If it's a no, though, I get it. I would get the reasons why.
Still, I might just have to start another one. I wonder if a saint can be worn down, if they're like, Jesus...again? That woman is tenacious!
St. Jude, Patron Saint of Hopeless Cases Who Are Still Plucky and Determined Despite Being Sad and Headachey. I do believe that has an interesting ring to it.
Thursday, May 27, 2010
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I'm completely and totally sick of these headaches. Not that I was ever really down with them to begin with. I was fairly gleeful of late to find that I wasn't getting them with my usual frequency and ferociousness, which I ascribed to a regular workout schedule. I still believe in this, that working my muscles and heart has benefited my head. For the month of May, however, I've been feeling like my body was hell-bent on giving me a headache.
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Friday, May 14, 2010
This Day Will Not Come Again
When am I going to learn that 'vigil' means the night prior? I missed the Feast of the Ascension, and mass for two weekends in a row, and I'm feeling rather aimless, like I'm floating in the ocean, wearing only swimmies.
Very unprepared. And drifting.
I checked my parish's website and found that all the morning masses were -- surprise -- ones that I couldn't attend.
Did I tell you that the last time I attended mass, the celebrant used a decent amount of Latin? Also not good. And I feel bad about saying that, because there once was a time everything was in Latin and then there was a huge sea change, and I bet the old-schoolers felt out of it and unhappy. Something beloved was different. I know how hard that is to swallow. There is something restorative in the cadence of words we know by heart. Words we could recite in our sleep.
The new translations are coming. Can I tell you how bereft I am that I'll have to give up Lord I am not worthy to receive you? It's going to be replaced with something like Lord I am not worthy to welcome you under my roof. That's not it exactly, but the gist is there. And although both statements are completely true, I have a fondness for the one I've said forever.
Some people have said that because the words are so familiar, people tend to zone out while saying them, and that maybe a change will bring new life to mass. I'm going to have an open mind, though I say that with a grumpy look on my face and defiantly crossed arms.
Since I'm scattered and feeling apart right now, I'm going to close with some Thomas Merton. I began thumbing through Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander last night, and was a bit dismayed to find that a lot of it is esoteric. He's quoting this philosopher or this theologian. It will take some work to read it. But there are some brief parts where Merton is describing his surroundings at Gethsemani, and it's like taking a coffee break while listening to a lengthy talk on foreign policy.
A sweet summer afternoon. Cool breezes and a clear sky. This day will not come again. The young bulls lie under a tree in the corner of their field. Quiet afternoon. Blue hills. Day lilies nod in the wind. This day will not come again.
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QEMU is a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer, originally developed by Fabrice Bellard.
When used as a machine emulator, QEMU can run OSes and programs made for one machine (e.g. an ARM board) on a different machine (e.g. your own PC). By using dynamic translation, it achieves very good performances.
When used as a virtualizer, QEMU achieves near native performances by executing the guest code directly on the host CPU. A host driver called the QEMU accelerator (also known as KQEMU) is needed in this case. The virtualizer mode requires that both the host and guest machine use x86 compatible processors.
Use in embedded projects
QEMU is increasingly used to provide an emulator for embedded processors, for testing embedded Linux without the need for actual hardware.
The Embedded Linux From Scratch presentation by Michael Opdenacker has great information about setting up QEMU with embedded Linux.
Also, Firmware Linux uses QEMU as part of a "native" build environment to eliminate cross-compilation problems when building for Embedded Linux distributions for non-X86 platforms.
Supported architectures
The following architectures are supported as target architectures for system emulation:
- x86
- ARM (ARM Integrator/CP, ARM Versatile, ARM Realview, X-Scale based PDAs, Palm Tungsten, Nokia N800/N810 tablets, Luminary boards, etc.)
- Sparc32 and Sparc64
- PowerPC
- Coldfire
Support for new boards or new peripherals can added relatively easily in Qemu, the APIs being quite simple to understand and use.
- QEMU Emulator User Documentation
- QEMU Internals (broken link --Klausfpga 16:48, 14 May 2009 (UTC) )
- QEMU Accelerator Technical Documentation
- Building an embedded Linux system emulator using Qemu
- QEMU for OMAP3 (BeagleBoard)
- QEMU on ARM
Some quick useful tips
How to build a rootfs.img
Here are the steps for building a rootfs.img, assuming you busybox built on your host, for the target archictecture:
mkdir /mnt/rootfs mount -o loop rootfs.img /mnt/rootfs rsync -a busybox/_install/ /mnt/rootfs chown -R root:root /mnt/rootfs/ sync umount
Some sample command lines
I got these from Rob Landley at OLS 2008:
qemu -kernel linux-2.6.26/arch/i386/boot/bzImage -hda rootfs.img -append "console=ttyS0 root=/dev/hda" -nographic
qemu -kernel linux-2.6.26/arch/i386/boot/bzImage -hda rootfs.img -append "console=ttyS0 root=/dev/hda init=/bin/ash" -nographic
qemu -kernel linux-2.6.26/arch/i386/boot/bzImage -hda rootfs.img -append "console=ttyS0 root=/dev/hda panic=1" -nographic -no-reboot
killall qemu
Interesting options
- -kernel <file> = specify the kernel image to use for booting
- -hda <file> = specify
- -nographic = don't use graphics, and redirect serial I/O to console
- -no-reboot = exit instead of rebooting
Resize filesystem image
Not enough space to install anything after you're up and running? Here's how to resize the image.
Host: qemu-img resize rootfs_debian6_rpi.ext4 +1G Qemu: sudo resize2fs /dev/sda // Be careful not to run this on your host machine
The online resize2fs may corrupt the filesystem so here's an alternative. resize using loopback device


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"Little Red Riding Hood" is about to get a whole lot darker – thanks to Leonardo DiCaprio.
Leo's Appian Way production company is set to put a gothic spin on the classic tale, according to Variety.
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However, it's unlikely Leo will star in the film.
The movie will be based on the classic Brothers Grimm 19th century tale, in which a wolf in disguise tricks a young girl into delivering food to her sick grandmother in the forest.
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While the Brothers Grimm put a happy ending on the story, the original version written by Charles Perrault actually ends with the girl being eaten by the wolf.
Leo and his Appian Way company are currently gearing up to release the thriller "Shutter Island," directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leo.
Leo was last seen on the big screen in 2008's "Body of Lies" and "Revolutionary Road."
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