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Tri Together is a short distance triathlon that aims to bring together people from all walks of life and raise funds for Leonard Cheshire Disability.
Tri Together is the perfect triathlon for all abilities. You can compete as part of a team and share out the events, or simply take on all three yourself. So it's really quite simple, whether you are a seasoned triathlete or this is your first triathlon, whether you want to do one sport or all three, register for Tri Together today.
Taking place at the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre in South London on Sunday 11 September, participants get the chance to run in the iconic Jubilee Stadium as well as through the leafy surrounds of Crystal Palace Park. With the support of tri247.com and the Crystal Palace Triathlon Club, this event is set to be the next big thing on the triathlon calendar.
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"I extensively tested the Phantom and it is just insane! So different to any suit I have ever used and so much more advanced
2011.04 |
Aqua Sphere Supports RNLI Long Swim Series
Aqua Sphere is delighted to announce an agreement with Votwo Events to become an associate partner of the 2011 RNLI Long Swim Series. The agreement underlines Aqua Sphere's commitment to encourage and support more people to take the plunge and enjoy outdoor swimming. As well as donating all swim caps, Aqua Sphere is generously supplying wet suit and goggle prizes to the individual event winners and its outstanding premium specification Phantom wet suit to the overall male and female series champions.
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Hot on the heels of announcing significant year-on-year sales growth for the fifth year running, Aqua Sphere UK is revealing its largest consumer advertising campaign to date.
Created for the Aqua Sphere Group by Publicis, one of the largest advertising agencies in the world, the global campaign features 7-time Olympic medalist and first-time mom, Amanda Beard, to promote the new Naiad range of fitness swimwear which, thanks to its Body Control System, helps women to look and feel good, and be more comfortable in the water.
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Aqua Sphere Goggles are Again the Primetime TV Choice
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Aqua Sphere's Charity Swim Challenge Finishes with the Men on Top
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GOP's $2.5 Trillion in Proposed Spending Cuts Are Commonsense
The list of suggested cuts includes the federal travel budget, new cars for the federal fleet, and mohair subsidies.
My colleague at U.S. News, Paul Bedard, reports the House GOP has proposed $2.5 trillion in spending cuts to the 2011 continuing resolution that is funding our government in lieu of a budget. In addition to eliminating funding for healthcare reform, saving $900 million, they're proposing ending federal control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, cutting the federal workforce through attrition by 15 percent, and returning federal spending on everything except defense, homeland security, and vets to 2008 levels. After that, they've got a list of additional specific cuts. If you'd like to take a look at the whole list, here it is. You won't need your morning coffee; it'll get your blood pressure up nicely.
[See which industries donate the most to your member of Congress.]
First, the list raises more questions than it answers. Actually, it's the same question over and over, and that is: "What the hell?" For example, "Require collection of unpaid taxes by federal employees; $1 billion savings." If I'm reading that correctly to mean that federal bureaucrats are not paying their taxes to the tune of $1 billion dollars, I'd like to know how someone who doesn't pay their federal income tax is able to keep their federal job in the first place. One way to save money would be not only to collect the unpaid taxes, but then to fire the tax scofflaws. Here's another: "Eliminate duplicative education programs; eliminates 68 at a savings of $1.3 billion annually." Another: "Prohibit taxpayer-funded union activities by federal employees; $1.2 billion in savings over ten years." This is the kind of stuff that drives taxpayers crazy, and they want it fixed yesterday.
Second, people in Peoria would question why the heck they've been paying for some of this stuff in the first place: millions in subsidies for the Washington, D.C., subway; exchange programs between native Alaskans, native Hawaiians, and "their historical trading partners in Massachusetts;" mohair subsidies and "weatherization" grants. The list reveals the depth of special-interest horse trading that's been going on for years here in Washington, and why people are fed up with excessive earmarks. [Check out a roundup of political cartoons on the economy.]
Other cuts are simply commonsense ideas—things that should have already been done: cuts in the federal travel budget and in new cars for the federal fleet, and new rules encouraging more competitive bidding.
Third, the list shows the willingness of the House GOP to make some difficult cuts, or at least to start a discussion about them. They've raised the question whether the federal government should continue its support for some programs that, to some, seemed reasonably within the federal purview: public railroads and public broadcasting, for example, and foreign aid. But the tide has turned against foreign aid, and maybe against public broadcasting, too. There's also a proposed end to the federal financing of presidential campaigns, which will bring on a great debate, as will ending both the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. So will ending the federal role in Fannie and Freddie. I'll give the House GOP points for bravery. [Check out a roundup of political cartoons on Democrats.]
Finally, George Will's column today quotes James Q. Wilson, who wrote that until relatively recently, "politics was only about a few things; today it is about nearly everything." In the past, when a new program was proposed, a great debate ensued about whether it was an appropriate area for the government to enter. Not any more. "There has been," Wilson wrote, "a transformation of public expectations about the scope of federal action, one that has put virtually everything on Washington's agenda and left nothing off." He suggests that it is difficult to think "of a human want or difficulty that is not now defined as a 'public policy problem.'"
Nowhere is that more clear than on this list. The "hubris" of Washington, as Will calls it, has put the government in a pickle of over-promising and under-delivering on such a broad array of services, it's unbelievable. The fact that this list spans everything from mohair to Egyptian foreign aid to high-speed rail to family planning to sugar price supports to climate change to doctoral dissertations to rural air service to organic farming ... well, it just goes on and on. [See a roundup of political cartoons on Obama.]
Truth be told, spending cuts like these are not going to get us there—reining in entitlements is what really needs to be done. But what this list says to me is that people who are worried about the size and scope—and the massive spending—of the federal government are not crazy. And they're not any less intelligent or compassionate than the rest of us. In fact, they're right on the money.

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Instant AutoIt Scripting
- Instant AutoIt Scripting
- Installing AutoIt and extras (Simple)
- Compiling and running a script (Simple)
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Instant AutoIt Scripting Essentials How-to is a simple and concise guide that will teach you the essential knowledge necessary to start working with AutoIt. Using numerous examples and short step-by-step recipes on how to solve small problems, this book will help you to automate a very wide range of manual tasks in Windows and other programs, and you will soon realise how easy it is to create exciting programs.
The book has multiple examples that explain on AutoIt being a standalone application with no reliance on the runtimes. This book includes 4 levels of programming: the operating system, the windows register, typical user level programs and scripts, and automation of other non-AutoIt apps.
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Experience the best of Southern China, beginning in Hong Kong and then followed by its famous mainland neighbors - Guangzhou, Guilin, Yangshuo and Longsheng - on this 6-day, 5-night guided tour. Explore Hong Kong's city life as your expert guide takes you to its commercial districts. Learn about the interesting culture and colonial history of Guangzhou, and ride a bike through Yangshuo to see the fantastic natural scenery of the county. Visit the Longji Rice Terraces and hike to Dazhai to appreciate not only the resourceful method of farming but also the breathtaking Chinese landscape.
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I write about how to maximize your automotive investment and more.
Let's get this out of the way: For the most part there really aren't any truly abysmal new cars in dealers' showrooms any more. Even the worst of the lot would be considered superior when compared to some notorious clunkers from the 1970′s and '80′s. Still, not all models are created equal. Each offers varying degrees of performance, comfort, utility and economy. A few hit home runs in virtually every category, while others may miss the mark in one or more areas, sometimes as trade offs for excellence in another. Some have just stayed on the shelf for too long and are forced to compete with dated designs and technology.
As the latest round of new-car ratings from Consumer Reports illustrates so soundly, the differences between the "best" vehicles in the market and the also-rans is decreasing to an ever narrowing degree. Truly awful cars from the dark days of the auto industry might have been characterized by inferior engineering, dismal – often hazardous – performance, dubious reliability and fit and finish that rivaled the craftsmanship of a seven-year-old assembling a model car while dozy on plastic-cement fumes. By comparison, some highly criticized new cars today tend to commit far more lenient sins.
For example, Ford dropped from fifth place among all manufacturers rated by Consumer Reports to the 11th spot this year, even though its road-test scores actually improved by two points. What makes better-performing cars bad? The magazine chalks it up to "subpar reliability of some new vehicles, due largely to the troublesome MyFord Touch infotainment system and Power-Shift automatic transmission." We're not big fans of Ford's clumsy control system or the too-busy-for-its-own-good gearbox found in the automaker's smallest cars, but neither qualm is hardly on the same plane as notorious episodes from past model years of cars rolling over and/or out of control in emergency handling maneuvers or bursting into flames following a collision.
Similarly, Honda fell a step out of CR's favor because recently redesigned versions of the compact Civic and Odyssey minivan were good, but not just deemed superior enough to the versions they replaced.
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That said, we poured over the latest data from Consumer Reports' 2012 Annual Auto Issue to identify which models, based on a convergence of objective test results, could be considered the 10 Worst Built Cars for 2012. (See the accompanying slide show for the complete rogues' gallery and selection criteria.)
We started by examining CR's road test ratings and isolated the models that were ranked at or near the bottom, as noted by an aggregate score under 50. Overall ratings are based on more than 50 individual tests and evaluations, and are presented on a 100-point scale. We then identified those models that received the lowest marks for reliability, based on Consumer Reports subscriber surveys, and were cited for at least two other "worsts," including bottom-of-the-pack value ratings, highest five-year operating costs, lowest owner satisfaction, poorest fuel economy in a given class and/or worst performance in accident-avoidance tests.
Of the 10 models that comprise our final list of 10 Worst-Built Cars for 2012, all but two of them, the Smart ForTwo and Toyota FJ Cruiser, come from domestic-brand automakers, specifically Chrysler LLC and General Motors. While those automakers have been making great strides in recent years with new and recently redesigned models, they're still recovering from their near-death experiences in 2008-2009 and the laggards in their respective lines awaiting major makeovers or replacements continue to haunt them.
"GM and Chrysler are building nicer cars with each redesign. Still, their scores are dragged down by several older designs that score low in Consumer Reports testing or have reliability issues," says David Champion, senior director, Consumer Reports Automotive Test Center, "As more new products are introduced, their fortunes could change if they can improve their overall reliability."
In Pictures: 10 Worst Built Cars For 2012
Most of the vehicles on our list are comparatively dated models that have fallen behind the competition in terms of automotive engineering and/or meeting consumers' expectations. The Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon midsize pickup trucks, for example, haven't seen a major redesign since the 2004 model year; the Cadillac Escalade, Chevrolet Tahoe, GMC Yukon, Dodge Avenger, Jeep Compass and Liberty, Smart ForTwo and Toyota FJ Cruiser have received only incremental changes since 2007 or 2008. Even the most modern models in our list, the Dodge Ram 2500 pickup truck (redesigned for 2010) and the Jeep Wrangler Unlimited (debuting for 2009) still run on dated underpinnings and have limited appeal except perhaps to a loyal following with specific needs.
Jim, 34/38 mpg for the ForTwo is not "stellar fuel economy". My 2007 Honda Fit gets that mileage, and it's much larger and heavier than a ForTwo. That's one of the big problems with the ForTwo: Gas mileage is terrible for such a small vehicle.
Agreed. The problem, ironically, with the ForTwo's gas mileage problem is that it needs a bigger engine, which requires a bigger engine bay.
You have to rev the nuts out of that engine to get up to speed, which kills mileage.
You're better off sticking in a used motorcycle engine that can fit and can achieve better mileage, to make the ForTwo truly work.
Sometimes I'm surprised SMART is still around. When you can get cars like the Honda Jazz (Fit), Toyota iQ, Fiat 500……..(which are cheaper and better), why bother with SMART at all?
All of these cars Obamobiles with the exception of the Smart Car. Hello!
No real surprises. We've built crap for years and that's the reason we've lost the market to foreign competition. We're STILL building crap.
I have a 1970 Kaiser Jeep Wagoneer that's STILL better than the Jeeps built today. Such a loss.
The CR Buying Guide 2012 is apparently inconsistent with your (and their) assessment.
CR gives the Toyota FJ an "Excellent" rating in RELIABILITY! (In My Opinion the most significant aspect of their ratings).
CR's Buying Guide 2012 Paraphrase:
'The FJ is superb off-road. Visibility is compromised by the thick roof pillars, and small windows; and the rear doors are awkward to use. The V6 is smooth, but the fuel economy is 17 mpg. Crash-test results are excellent, but the FJ scores too low to be recommended. Jan.2007′
AWFULL assumptions based on AWFULL (research?).
With Kelley Blue Book calling it the best vehicle for resale value, it doesn't seem like the FJ Cruiser belongs on a "worst-built cars" list. It might not be the best car for city driving, but it's great for getting through sand, snow, or two feet of water. The engine and brakes are strong enough for pulling a trailer. There's enough room in the cargo deck for a pair of hunting dogs. Since there's no carpet, it's easy to clean out after camping or off-roading. I've found the clamshell doors and interior layout to be very practical, and the luggage rack is sturdy. For outdoorsmen, I'd put the FJC on the list of best-built cars.
I've been looking at several different brands of cars and can't find one with a comfortable seat. I got spoiled driving my wife's 2000 Buick and my '98 S-10. Every car I've looked at has a dinky bucket seat for the front seating, even expensive cars, I guess the carmakers don't want their buyers to be too comfortable.


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The strangest oddity of this season has been Oklahoma's inability to get a player named the Big 12's offensive player of the week. The Sooners averaging 485.56 yards per game and 39.78 points, but they haven't had an individual player singled out.
A current trends points to that ending when the award is announced on Monday.
OU faces West Virginia at 6 p.m. today at Milan Puskar Stadium. The Big 12 Conference offensive player of the week award has gone to a player that went up against the West Virginia defense the four of the last five weeks.
Oklahoma State wide receiver Josh Stewart claimed the prize after catching 13 passes for 172 yards and scoring two touchdowns touchdowns in the Cowboys 55-34 victory over the Mountaineers last Saturday
TCU wide receiver Josh Boyce was the recipient after totaling six catches for 180 yards receiving yards and two touchdowns in the Horned Frogs 39-38 overtime victory on Nov. 3.
Kansas State quarterback Collin Klein was the winner after he threw for 323 yards and three touchdowns and rushed for four more in the Wildcats 55-14 rout of West Virginia on Oct. 20.
Texas Tech quarterback Seth Doege started run when he threw for 499 yards and six touchdowns in the Red Raiders' 49-14 romp over the Mountaineers on Oct. 13.
The last time the Big 12 didn't honor a player who'd just gone against West Virginia was after the games on Oct. 27. The Mountaineers didn't play that week.


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NORMAN — Norman High graduate Tanner Satterthwaite leaves Tuesday to serve a two-year mission in the Cambodia Phnom Penh Mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Before going to Cambodia, Tanner will spend 10 weeks in the Missionary Training Center (MTC) in Provo, Utah, learning the Khmer language.
In high school, Tanner received the following awards: Scholar Athlete Milk Mustache of the Year Award (SAMMY), Gatorade Oklahoma Boy's Cross Country Athlete of the Year and the Jim Thorpe Cross Country Award. He also is a graduate from the LDS Seminary religious education program and is an Eagle Scout.
"I'm really excited to be serving the people of Cambodia. While it will be sad to be away from Norman for two years, I know it will be a life changing experience," Satterthwaite said.
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The day after voters in North Carolina approved a constitutional amendment defining marriage as solely between a man and a woman, President Obama told ABC News on Wednesday that he now supports gay marriage.
The president — who still supports letting states decide the issue on their own — said his personal views had gone through an "evolution" based on conversations with family and friends and the views of his own daughters.
"They are much more comfortable with it," the president told Robin Roberts in an interview to be shown on ABC's "Good Morning America" Thursday. Excerpts will air tonight on ABC's "World News with Diane Sawyer."
"You know, Malia and Sasha, they have friends whose parents are same-sex couples," Obama said in the interview. "There have been times where Michelle and I have been sitting around the dinner table and we're talking about their friends and their parents and Malia and Sasha, it wouldn't dawn on them that somehow their friends' parents would be treated differently. It doesn't make sense to them and frankly, that's the kind of thing that prompts a change in perspective."
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Many a worthwhile medical thriller has been presented as a crafty morality tale. For example: would you give a person cancer if you knew it would cure cancer? What if it was a hundred people? And what if the results were … pretty certain, but not guaranteed? When do actions pursued for the betterment of humanity tip the scales and become, well, inhumane? This is the sort of material presented in Eron Sheean's Errors of the Human Body, which is not the gory splatter-fest it may sound like, but is a chilly, compelling, and quietly engrossing little sci-fi/horror thriller from Germany.
Calm and collected in the most fascinating fashion, Errors of the Human Body is a medical thriller that's both reminiscent of earlier stories (ones from David Cronenberg or Michael Crichton, perhaps) and astutely unique in its own right. On the surface it's the story of an American doctor who travels to Hamburg to assist a pair of estranged colleagues who are on to something big in the field of cancer research, but in the layers beneath (and there are several) we have a tense, topical, and fascinating discussion about morality, medicine, the dangers of playing god, the sin of wasting knowledge, the perils of trust, and the necessity of human contact.
And while Errors of the Human Body could be capably described as a "slow burn" thriller, that's not to say it's boring or uneventful. Once the doctor's tragic backstory gets some attention, we're already halfway invested, but once the film settles in as a three-way ego-brawl between some brilliant but very different doctors, it starts to generate energy on a variety of levels. By the time the film gradually transforms into a tragic tale of espionage, infection, and physical mutation, Errors has already succeeded in the realms of concept, intelligence, and slow-build character. What once seemed cold and clinical has become personal and fascinating.
The three leads are simply fantastic across the board. As the woman who may have just cured cancer, but has her own reasons for remaining stoic about the discovery, Karoline Herfurth is all sorts of engaging. Equally good, but a lot more colorful, is Tomas Lemarquis as brilliant young German who may have plagiarized his way into something special. Bald and brash, he butts heads with his new American adversary with amusing results. As played by Michael Eklund, he's a downbeat but undeniably passionate researcher who has his own reasons for being so driven, and if the film eventually does reach a "mad scientist" moment, it's nice to note that the journey was so unexpectedly intelligent and engrossing. Bonus points for the inclusion of great British character actor Rik Mayall, as the "big boss" doctor who steals several key scenes and keeps the audience up to speed in very efficient fashion.
Set mostly in a cavernous and unwelcoming series of hallways and labs, Errors of the Human Body works as a smart piece of throwback sci-fi, a deliberately-paced but insightful horror story, and a "simple" little drama about three very different people who are all scrambling for one very noble goal, at any cost. By the time the movie gets gory and throws a few unexpected plot curves at you, you'll either be already hooked by the "character stuff," or you'll have tuned the hell out already. (Obviously I was in the former group.)


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By JUDY SHERIDAN
Parker County commissioners begin discussions on the county's $56.4 million FY 2013-14 budget Monday.
The proposed tax rate of 41 cents per $100 assessed valuation is the same as last year's.
The $39 million General Fund budget, proposed by Judge Mark Riley, is balanced and up about 3 percent overall from last year's.
The revenue expected from property taxes is virtually unchanged, but other significant revenue increases are projected, with $495,000 to come from housing more federal inmates in the Parker County Jail and $580,000 from increases in auto registration, according to Riley. The budget also forecasts a $268,000 increase in sales taxes.
The proposed budget does not assign the $1.3 million in additional funds to specific expenditures, lumping them into a contingencies category until future court discussion.
Riley said the court will use the undesignated funds to pay for increases in employee health insurance, yet unknown, new software for the sheriff's office and a portion of state-mandated salary increases for district and county court-at-law judges.
"It will be moved over and designated when we adopt the budget," Riley said. "Some of this stuff I didn't have exact numbers on when I filed my budget, so I said we'll just put the money right there — everybody knows where it is — that's what we're going to draw from as we make those adjustments..."
The proposed budget for the county's Road and Bridge Fund, also balanced, is about $10.8 million, with little change from last year.
The Debt Service fund rises from about $6 million to about $6.6 million, with expenditures reflecting the lease-purchase of the county's updated judicial software. It is also a balanced budget.
In addition to the General Fund, Road and Bridge Fund and Debt Service Fund — supported by taxes — the county maintains many other funds, most associated with fees, according to County Auditor Mike Rhoten,
When those funds are combined with the major funds, he said, the county's total proposed budget for FY 2013-14 is approximately $76.9 million.
That total does not include the money set aside for transportation bond projects, which is shown as $22.3 million in the proposed budget, but described by Rhoten as closer to $24 million.
The funds will wrap up the remaining bond projects, Riley said, the Western Loop and interchange, the Aledo Trail one-way couplet and a drainage study the court authorized in Springtown. Some of the monies will go toward a continuing alignment study that is expected to map an eastern loop around Weatherford.
Riley described the proposed budget as a good one, considering the recovering local economy.
"Our growth is steady, not phenomenal." he said. "Everybody is doing over and above sometimes, working hard to make it work and not come back and ask for a lot of money."
Elected officials will not get a raise, the judge said, but a pay increase for rank-and-file employees — within the available funds — will be a priority for court discussion.
"There's not going be a tax rate increase; it's not necessary," he said.


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Q: Where is the wheelchair accessible campsite? How is it different from the other campsites?
A: The park has one wheelchair accessible campsite. It is N41, Voyageurs Narrows. It is located just southwest of Mica Island on Namakan Lake. The campsite is available by reservation only. Reservations can only be made at the Kabetogama Lake Visitor Center. Park staff built the facilities at Voyageurs Narrows to accommodate a wheelchair. The fire ring is higher, the picnic table has an extended end, the toilet is accessible, and the whole site is located on a rather flat rock surface.
Q: Where are the sandy beaches in the park? Are there beaches outside the park?
A: There are a number of sandy beaches in the park located at the developed sites. Park maps and brochures list the type of access each site has. If the access is listed as sand, then there is most likely a sandy beach at the site. Outside of the Park, there are sandy beaches at Woodenfrog State Forest Campground and City Beach (east of International Falls on County Road 20) and there is a beach in Ranier.
Q: Can I pick berries and edible plants in the park?
A: Yes. The following edible species may be gathered for personal use or consumption without a written special use permit: strawberries, chokecherries, rose hips, blackberries, raspberries, blueberries, cranberries, and wild rice. Collection is limited to one gallon per person per day. It has been determined that gathering or consuming these species will not adversely affect park wildlife, the reproduction potential of a plant species, or otherwise adversely affect park resources.
Q: How do I rent one of the boats the Park has available for use on the interior lakes?
A: The park rents canoes and rowboats for $10 a day/boat on nine interior lakes on the Kabetogama Peninsula. Visitors may reserve a boat no sooner than one week in advance by phone or at the Rainy Lake or Kabetogama visitor centers [open 9AM to 5PM]. Visitors must sign a special use permit and pick up a key to unlock the boats from the appropriate visitor center. The following boats are available for use at these locations:
Rainy Lake Visitor Center
Kabetogama Visitor Center
Q: Are the bugs always this bad?
A: Biting insects arrive in May and stay through the end of August. The number of insects depends on the amount of rain the area receives. Biting insects subside near the end of August.
Q: Can we cut wood for campfires?
A: Visitors can only use dead and downed wood for firewood. Visitors may not cut down live trees or dead standing trees or any other type of live vegetation. Some sites are labeled No Wood Gathering. At these sites no wood – dead and downed included – may be gathered for firewood. Firewood is available for purchase at several locations in the gateway communities, and Park visitors are encouraged to purchase wood and carry it in with them whenever possible.
Q: Where can I camp in the Park?
A: Visitors can camp almost anywhere in the Park, although people are encouraged to use one of the park's developed sites because they are built to protect the park's resources and to withstand use. There are over 200 developed campsites in the Park. All of the developed sites are "boat-in" and cannot be reached by car. Campsites in the Park are operated on a "first come, first served" basis; reservations are not accepted. Visitors can camp in the Park for 14 consecutive days and a maximum of 30 calendar days per year. Cars can be left parked at a visitor center for the duration of a stay, however camping or other overnight use is not allowed near the visitor centers.
Q: Where can I camp on the edge of the park?
A: Drive-up camping is available outside of the Park at Woodenfrog State Forest Campground on Kabetogama Lake and Ash River Campground in Ash River, both of which are operated by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. Woodenfrog State Campground on Lake Kabetogama is beautiful and rustic with a great swimming beach, boat ramp, and an old YCC building used for interpretive talks on a regular basis. There are 61 campsites at Woodenfrog. Ash River Campground has nine units and is located across the road from the DNR boat launch in Ash River. Both campgrounds charge $12.00/night. Many resorts also allow camping. They are listed in the annual park newsletter, The Rendezvous, which we can send at your request.
Q: Do we have to report to customs if we boat into Canada?
A: Canadian Customs requires visitors to report to a Canadian customs office before going ashore in Canada. Customs offices are located at Portage Bay on Sand Point Lake and Sand Bay on Rainy Lake. However, visitors not going ashore can obtain a CANPASS Remote Area Border Crossing (RABC) permit allowing them to cross the border without passing through customs; these can be obtained in person at designated ports of entry or in advance by mail. Please see the Canadian Border Services Agency website for the most recent application form and program details.
When returning to the U.S., visitors must report to a U.S. Customs office, unless they are in possession of Form I-68, which is part of the Canadian Border Boat Landing Program. Though Form I-68 permits entrance into the U.S. without reporting in person, you are still required to telephone customs to notify them of your entry. Form I-68 can only be obtained in person at a port of entry. U.S. customs offices are located at the Crane Lake Public Landing or at the International Falls Bridge. For more information about Form I-68 see the U.S. Customs website.
Q: Where are pets allowed?
A: Dogs are only allowed at developed areas, such as visitor centers, and at overnight or day use sites. Dogs are not allowed on park trails or portages. Dogs must be on a leash and attended at all times. Dogs are not allowed on park trails because they can disturb wildlife and could potentially spread disease. Other pets fall under these same guidelines.
Q: Where can I fish? Is ice fishing allowed in the park?
A: You can fish anywhere in the park except Beast Lake on the Kabetogama Peninsula. Ice fishing is allowed. All Minnesota State fishing regulations apply and anglers must possess a Minnesota State fishing license. If visitors want to fish in Canadian waters they must have a Canadian fishing license.
Q: How do visitors get to Kettle Falls? Can you drive there?
A: There are no roads to Kettle Falls. Visitors can get there by starting from Rainy, Kabetogama, Namakan, or Crane Lake. Visitors can get there by private boat, the Kabetogama Lake tour boat (The Otter), commercial water taxi, or floatplane.
Q:When do the ladyslippers bloom?
A: They usually bloom in late June. The best place to see them is near the Kabetogama Lake Visitor Center. The ladyslippers bloom on a grassy island in the parking lot.
Q: When do the lakes freeze and thaw?
A: The lakes usually freeze in late November-early December. They thaw in late April-early May. The thickness of the ice varies depending on how cold the winter is. The ice can be 3 + feet thick.
Q: How far is it to…?
A: A list of relevant distances by car and boat:
Distances by car to the Park
Twin Cities = ~ 270 miles
It's about a five-hour drive from the center of the Twin Cities to the shores of Lake Kabetogama. Plan on the same amount of time to reach Crane Lake or Ash River. Add 45 minutes to reach Island View, which is east of International Falls.
Duluth = ~ 140 miles
It's a little less than three-hour drive from the center of Duluth to the shores of Lake Kabetogama
Distances by boat between park destinations
Distances by car between park visitor centers
Q: Are there any motor restrictions for boats in the park?
A: No. As long as the boat and motor comply with state and federal regulations. However, personal watercraft (e.g. jet skis) are prohibited in the park.
Q: How do I find my way around the lake without getting lost?
A: Visitors can find their way by using navigation maps of the park lakes. These maps mark channel buoys and rocks. Maps are sold in the bookstores at all visitor centers.
Q:What kind of permit do I need to get into Voyageurs and what does it cost?
A: No permit is required and it does not cost anything to enter the Park. However, anyone staying in the Park overnight, year-round, is required to have an overnight permit. Visitors can obtain permits from any of the visitors centers or from one of the permit boxes located at each of the boat launches. Be aware that park campsites are becoming more popular each year and they fill up early most weekends in the summer. Eventually the National Park Service could require advance campsite permits to ensure that people who drive great distances to the park will be guaranteed a campsite when they arrive.
Q: Where can I leave my car while I am visiting the Park overnight? Can visitors park an RV overnight near a visitor center?
A: Visitors can leave their vehicles at any of the three visitor centers – Ash River, Kabetogama, and Rainy Lake – for the duration of their stay, however occupied vehicles are not allowed overnight in the visitor center parking lots. You can also call the local resorts and ask about their policies for overnight parking.
Q: Are there any roads in the park?
A: Yes. There are approximately 10 miles of roads in the park. The only roads are the access roads to the three visitor centers – Ash River, Kabetogama, and Rainy Lake. During the winter months, the park maintains a 7-mile ice road that starts from the Rainy Lake Visitor Center boat launch and ends at Cranberry bay.
Q: Where can we get the weather forecast?
A: A two day weather forecast from the National Weather Service is posted each morning at each visitor center. Most park radios have a weather forecast channel. A weather forecast is broadcast via telephone at (218) 283-4615.
Q: Does your office have basic information on the park-area resorts?
A: Yes we do. We have the annual park service newsletter, The Rendezvous, which lists the resorts by lake area and describes the services each resort offers. We will send you a copy on request. We also have limited information on individual resorts and outfitters for those with specific requests.
Q: Are there water taxis to take me to the Kabetogama Peninsula trail heads?
A: There are many resorts on Lake Kabetogama that offer water-taxi service to the Kabetogama Peninsula. There is also water-taxi service, from the Kettle Falls Hotel or the Rainy Lake Visitor Center, to reach the peninsula trail head on Rainy Lake's Anderson Bay. The Park also operates a shuttle service from the Kabetogama Lake Visitor Center to the Peninsula's Locator Lake Trailhead, one day a week only during the summer season. Telephone numbers for these services are all found in the annual park service newsletter, The Rendezvous.
Q: If I take my family to Voyageurs NP, what can we do besides fishing?
A: There's a wealth of activities for families at the park. The National Park Service publishes a daily list of interpretive activities, from a beaver pond hike to a night-time boat tour or a ride in a big lake-size "Voyageur" canoe. There are trails to hike and beautiful sand beaches on many of the islands. With little effort, you'll see eagles, pelicans, osprey, turkey vultures, loons and golden eye ducks. Raspberries and blueberries are ripe for picking in mid-summer. Climb huge glacial boulders or sun yourself on the ancient rock of the Canadian Shield. Stop at a park visitor center or ask a resort owner about their favorite activities. A week at the park will be gone before you know it. See our list of popular recreational activities.


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Abram Brown, Forbes Staff
I write about people who build businesses.
So this is why Ron Johnson earns more than a few handful of pennies.
The new J.C. Penney chief on Friday executed a neat trick. He prompted a pleasant rally, despite some truly grim numbers on the department-store chain's second quarter. (The rally does seem mostly Johnson. The stock fell as much as 12% in pre-market trading, only to bounce up when Johnson took the stage. Shares ended Friday up 5.9%.) Now, recall that a few months earlier, in May, similarly severe figures led to the largest one-day loss in the stock's history.
How did Johnson do it?
Well, he had help. Chief Financial Officer Ken Hannah started by outlining the situation with the retailer's balance sheet. In short, it looked better than expected. J.C. Penney ended the quarter with $880 million in cash.
That's the opposite of what critics feared. Observers pointed to the large depletion in cash at the end of the first quarter as evidence that Johnson would blow through liquidity in efforts to complete his ambitious turnaround: J.C. Penney had fallen to $839 million in cash from $1.5 billion a quarter earlier. What's more, the company went as far as to cancel its dividend to preserve cash.
"In the first quarter, the biggest thing was the removal of the dividend," says Liz Dunn, Macquarie Capital analyst. "They cut the dividend. People freaked." Dunn rates J.C. Penney as Outperform.
Going a step further, Hannah assured investors that J.C. Penney would continue to add to its cash position. The company aims to end the year with about $1 billion in cash, even after some $800 million in capital expenditures. A solid financial position gives J.C. Penney's time to complete the turnaround.
Ah, yes, the turnaround. Johnson has laid out an eye-catching plan to reinvent the 110-year old retailer. It would make the reatiler a greater competitor to Kohl's and Macy's, as well as Target and Gap.
Johnson on Friday carefully doled out a few more details, all the while seeming humble and willing to admit early mistakes. All key elements to the morning's stagecraft, a time when Johnson appeared downright cheerful, all grins and charm, clad in a black jacket and jeans.
He talked more about what J.C. Penney's store layout will become: Wider aisles encircling a central location called The Square, a place where moms practice yoga and children receive haircuts. The individual modules that ring The Square will be grouped by brands or by theme, accompanied by spiffy technology—iPads, of course, which rank as the least surprising aspect of Friday's presentation by Johnson, the former Apple retail chief, and impressive Oracle gadgets.
He's a magician alright…… He made J. C. Penney customers, sales, profits, coupons and dividends disappear.
@ Dobby Dobby — you are SO dead on right! JCPenney executives listen up …. TALK to your consumers NOT this new CEO…he doesn't get it! WE LIKED the old JCP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This Ron Johnson can pull all the tricks he tries and if Wall Street thinks he is still smart they need a new lesson in Truth of the Matter of Facts.
Ron had all the support from Steve Jobs before and did nothing but run around and when Overseas came in to play he didnt want that so he moved on.
Now he has what he wanted to be CEO what a job for someone who hasnt ever done it before. At best he was a runner for other people
with an education. He made Millions when he came to Apple and JC Penney but now they should have a Claw Back clause for the $53M he received the first few months he was there at JCP. That would really
make people believe he is there for the company not himself if he
had to earn back the $53M.
He at best is a DMM with no experience dealing with vendors PD and so much more. The stores will never and cant be anything more than they are today. They can pour money into them and it wont matter since they are 80% old stores without the proper floor plans lighting fixtures even the entrance doors dont work properly so when you come in you know you are in a 1950′s store!
Move on close the stores and join Sears with there BS also. Lambert another BS artist that had something going until he thought he would raid a company for its Real Estate. That will be next for JCP also. Only value they have left.
Then there are a handful of stores that have real value today since there is so so much RE available in better malls and centers it becomes yesterdays NEWS.
The "magician" needs to realize that they need exciting products in the stores….with the current mediocre sourcing & product development team and lack of leadership accross the PD&S organization, it seems like JCP would need huge magic effort to get the product to shelf. Their suppliers do not trust the new leadership and are not willing to support the most in-capable sourcing leadership in the history of company….without support from suppliers, the magician will have a very hard time putting up similar effort in front of analysts and investors in the 3rd quarter.
I had to pass through a lot of construction mess at a store in my neighbourhood every time i tried to reach a shelf…..only to find-out they've run out of size / color or have discontinued the brand!
with JCP turning back on all it's major announcements of January it is absolutely evident how UNNECESSARY this whole exercise was for the company and it's investors!!!
not sure about how the biggies will perform anyways if we see the way world is changing everybody is moving towards, ecommerce, mcommerce and virtual dressing rooms thanks to mobile devices and augmented reality application. To cover this in a larger context. we have recently posted an article on RetailOpia.


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Half Million Vote Early; 2-to-1 in GOP Primary
More than twice as many Tennesseans voted early in Republican primaries than in Democratic primaries statewide and the total set a new record for an August election, according to figures posted Sunday on a state website.
Early voting ended on Saturday and the Sunday figures posted by the Division of Elections showed that 337,843 Republicans and 164,621 Democrats took advantage of the pre-election day opportunities. Others who chose not to vote in a primary but voted in local elections pushed the total of early and absentee voting to 530,522.
That would be a record for an August primary. In 2008, only 209,474 people voted early and in 2006, the total was 447,919 in 2006, which was also a gubernatorial election year.
Election Division statistics from past years do not break down the number of Republicans compared to the number of Democrats in early voting. But in 2006, perhaps the most comparable to the current election in recent years, the overall August primary vote was much more evenly matched between Republicans and Democrats.
A total of 421,900 Democrats voted in their 2006 U.S. Senate primary -- including both votes cast early and on election day -- in a race won by then-Rep. Harold Ford Jr. The Republican total was 481,117 in the Senate primary won by Bob Corker.
The Division of Elections says that that 43.2 percent of the total votes cast in the August, 2006, primary were early votes. In 2008, 46.9 percent of the total vote came early. There has been speculation that about half the total vote this year will be in early voting.
In Knox County, home of Republican gubernatorial candidate and Knoxville Mayor Bill Haslam, the early vote total was reported as 36,338, with 33,382 Republicans and 2,660 Democrats casting ballots. Again, the totals include persons who chose not to vote in either primary but did vote in local elections.
In 2008, the Knox early voting total was 20,574; in 2006, 24,042.
Two of the state's three other largest counties also saw an increase in early voting over past years, the exception being Davidson. There the total was 29,294, including 15,559 in the Republican primary and 13,604 in the Democratic primary.
In Shelby County, where Democratic U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen faces a primary challenge from former Memphis Mayor Willie Herenton, the Democratic total exceeded the Republican total, 47,444 to 37,120.
In Hamilton County, home of GOP gubernatorial candidate and Congressman Zach Wamp, there were 12,221 Republican early votes compared to 8,080 Democratic primary votes.
In Sullivan County, home of Republican gubernatorial candidate and state Senate Speaker Ron Ramsey, 10,548 people voted in the GOP primary compared to 2,137 in the Democratic primary.
The apparent surge in Republican primary voting raises the possibility of substantial crossover voting by Democrats, who have no contested gubernatorial primary since Jackson businessman Mike McWherter is unopposed.
Also, Republicans have high-spending, fiercely contested primaries in the 3rd, 6th and 8th congressional districts and a spirited contest in the 4th district. Democratic nominees are unopposed in the 4th and 8th and the party primaries in the 6th and 8th are much more low key than the GOP combat.
Of the three major Republican gubernatorial candidates, only Ramsey supports changing current law to block crossover voting by requiring party registration, as the Associated Press initially reported last week.
"You ought to be voting for who you think is the best person for that position, not who you think your party wants to face that fall," he said. "That is kind of rigging the election."
One theory for Democratic crossover voters is to have the weakest possible Republican nominee in November. But another is that crossover voters will pick who they consider the best qualified candidate - known as the "lesser-of-the-evils" approach.
Both Haslam and Wamp disagreed with Ramsey's support for closed primaries - which was proposed as legislation in the General Assembly last year, but never actively pushed.
"The law in Tennessee is you don't register by party, so how do you provide for someone who's changed their mind in the mean time?" Haslam said. "If somebody says they want to vote in (either) primary, they should be able to do that."
Wamp said he encourages "all clear-thinking, clear-minded responsible Tennesseans" to support him, regardless of their past primary votes.
"As a candidate I want to encourage full participation by everyone," he said.


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Smoking — we all know how bad it is for us. There is also an abundance of information available to educate the public as to how detrimental the effects of tobacco are to our health. However, do our children get enough of this information? There was a time not long ago in 2001 that anti-smoking and anti-tobacco adds were all over the television. At that same time, massive efforts to educate our children in the schools were commonplace and funded with the cigarette excise tax and settlement money. This is not the case anymore. Due to the fiscal "crisis," money originally intended to fund tobacco prevention and cessation is being diverted to other budget areas in the state.
In the year 2012, 9,000 residents died and $3.9 billion was spent on health care related to tobacco use; $815 million was collected in tobacco revenue. However, only $4.2 million, or 0.5 percent, was spent on tobacco prevention and cessation programs — a drastic drop from the $54.3 million spent in 2000. For the past 12 years, the cessation and prevention programs in the state have dwindled, which will likely lead to an increase in the tobacco usage rates, especially for our young teens as marketing strategies continue to be geared toward the most vulnerable.
As a parent of young teens, a daughter of a wonderful man who lost his life at the age of 49 to heart disease accelerated by smoking, and a nursing graduate student at Salem State University, I have initiated a petition to increase the awareness of and to promote an increase in funding to at least 10 percent. It is time to become proactive instead of just reactive. We must remember that this is an investment, which will eventually dramatically reduce the amount of tax dollars we spend on tobacco-related health care for conditions such as lung cancer, COPD, heart disease and more!
Please encourage readers to go to the website — change.org — to sign the petition and also to write, call or email Gov. Deval Patrick, our state senators and our representatives to address this recently neglected issue that if not acted upon could result in a rise in the number of smokers/tobacco users and a serious rise in tax dollars spent on the subsequent care of these people. Thank you very much.
Corinne Fiory-Eanes, RN, MSN student


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|Thai Airways adds Yangon-Bangkok midday flight
THAI Airways International (TG) added one more flight on its daily schedule between Yangon and Bangkok from August 16 to meet high demand between the two cities.
New mid-day flight between Yangon-Bangkok used AirBus A300-600 with 42 business classes and 262 economy classes. According to the schedule the flight will depart from Yangon at 2:55pm and will arrive to Bangkok on 4:50pm.


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Andy Amey
The Tribune-Star
For a coach whose college basketball teams are built on the most traditional of concepts — defense, good shots, taking care of the basketball, things like that — Rose-Hulman's Jim Shaw isn't afraid to espouse non-traditional ideas once in a while.
Two of his against-the-grain precepts were put to the test Saturday night and the Engineers passed with flying colors, finishing the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference tournament championship game on a 7-2 run for a 64-59 win over Hanover in Hulbert Arena.
The Engineers will learn shortly after 12:30 p.m. Monday where — or if — they will have to travel for the first round of NCAA Division III tournament play. A link to the NCAA pairings show will be available sometime Monday on the Rose-Hulman athletics website.
Saturday's win over the Panthers was the third this season by the Engineers; unlike most coaches, Shaw says a third win against an opponent should be easier to get and this one was — relatively speaking.
The other two were a one-pointer at the buzzer and a two-point road win that earned Rose-Hulman the regular-season championship and hosting duties for the postseason tournament.
Which brings us to Shaw's other less-than-conventional view, although in this case the Rose-Hulman coach got to have his cake and eat it too.
"It's a combination of joy and relief," Shaw said as his team danced and prepared to cut down the nets. "We had such a great year … everybody, wrongfully, focuses on the NCAAs, but a league championship is hard to win and it's done over a long haul.
"I didn't want this team not to play in the NCAA tourney," he concluded. "I'm extremely proud and privileged to be with this group of guys."
The Engineers got contributions from virtually every member of their group Saturday, both offensively and defensively, and down the stretch it was one of that group's least-heralded members who took the game over.
After falling behind 12-2 in the first eight minutes, Rose gradually worked its way back into the contest. Nine consecutive Engineer points gave the home team a 29-26 lead late in the first half, but Hanover rallied to take a 34-31 lead at the break.
A 6-0 Rose-Hulman run for a 44-42 lead early in the second half was matched by the Panthers, who got back-to-back steals by Drake Hendricks and an unexpected shot-clock-beating jumper from Desmond Marks for a 48-44 advantage.
Austin Weatherford hit a 3-pointer for the Engineers, but Marks scored inside to keep the visitors up 50-47. Then Brenton Balsbaugh took over.
His three-point play with 5:58 tied the score, wiping out what would turn out to be Hanover's last lead. On the Panthers' next possession, Balsbaugh got two blocks on quicksilver point guard Tim Bass within a few seconds of each other to preserve the tie.
"He's fast," Balsbaugh said of Bass afterward. "I just tried to be there to help. Austin [Weatherford] did a good job funneling [Bass] to where I was."
Rose took the lead with 5:07 left on a 3-pointer by Julian Strickland, then padded it to 55-50 with about three minutes left when Balsbaugh took Strickland's pass and made a layup. Hanover tied the game one more time, at 57-57 on a 3-pointer by Brian Gunter with 1:17 to play, but Jon Gerken got an offensive rebound and assisted on a Strickland basket for the final tie-breaker and Weatherford, Strickland and Gerken hit five free throws in the last 33 seconds.
Balsbaugh, who had a season-high 17 points for the second night in a row, was named tournament MVP.
"He was a little hurt at the end of the year," Shaw said of his senior center, "but he got healthy last week. He was tremendous last night [in an 81-59 win over Defiance] and in the second half tonight — finishing, rebounding and defending.
"We're a different team when we get interior play like that, and thanks to him we were able to withstand a spotty shooting performance," Shaw added. "But the mark of a good team is it's always somebody."
Strickland added 13 points, Weatherford 12 and Gerken 10 for the Engineers. Strickland had nine rebounds and four assists, while Gerken and Weatherford had five assists each.
Bass had 12 points and Ryan Nowicki 10 for Hanover.
"I'm pretty excited," Balsbaugh said after the game. "We were regular-season winners and we brought [a championship] home here too.
"We set some goals at the beginning [of the season], and [winning the conference tournament] was one of them," he added. "Winning 20 games, winning the regular season, this was the next [goal]."
Any more goals, he was asked.
"At least another one," Balsbaugh answered with a smile.
HANOVER (59) — Nowicki 5-9 0-0 10, Gunter 3-6 0-0 7, Marks 4-7 1-3 9, Bass 4-12 4-4 12, Hendricks 2-6 0-0 4, James 2-5 0-0 6, Wehner 2-3 0-0 6, Bingham 0-2 0-0 0, Van Kleunen 2-2 1-2 5. Totals 24-52 FG, 6-9 FT, 59 TP.
ROSE-HULMAN (64) — Strickland 4-16 4-4 13, Gerken 3-6 3-4 10, Balsbaugh 7-9 3-3 17, Weatherford 3-8 4-5 12, Pillischafske 0-1 0-0 0, Houpt 1-3 0-0 2, Gissentanner 3-6 0-0 8, Martin 0-0 0-1 0, Dodd 1-1 0-0 2. Totals 22-50 FG, 14-17 FT, 64 TP.
Halftime — Hanover 34-31. 3-point shooting — Hanover 5-17 (James 2-3, Wehner 2-3, Gunter 1-2, Bingham 0-1, Nowicki 0-2, Bass 0-3, Hendricks 0-3), RH 6-14 (Weatherford 2-3, Gissentanner 2-3, Gerken 1-1, Strickland 1-6, Pillischafske 0-1). Total fouls — Hanover 18, RH 12. Fouled out — none. Turnovers — Hanover 9, RH 10. Rebounds — Hanover 26 (Gunter 8, Marks 6), RH 33 (Strickland 9, Gerken 6, Weatherford 5, Gissentanner 5, Balsbaugh 4, Martin, team 3). Assists — Hanover 11 (Gunter 4), RH 19 (Gerken 5, Weatherford 5, Strickland 4, Gissentanner 3, Martin 2). Steals — Hanover 8 (Hendricks 3), RH 7 (Strickland 2, Gerken, Balsbaugh, Weatherford, Martin, Dodd). Blocks — Hanover 4 (Gunter, Marks, Hendricks, Wehner), RH 4 (Balsbaugh 3, Gissentanner). Att — 1,000.
Next — Rose-Hulman (24-3) will play next Saturday in the NCAA Division III tournament, opponent and site to be announced Monday. Hanover (18-9) has probably concluded its season.