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I just got a note from Billy at cPanel that WordPress is now a cPanel Addon Script, which means you will be able to install and keep WordPress updated automatically using cPanel which is installed on millions of hosts worldwide.
I just got a note from Billy at cPanel that WordPress is now a cPanel Addon Script, which means you will be able to install and keep WordPress updated automatically using cPanel which is installed on millions of hosts worldwide.
Man. Now I'll have to get subdomaining set up on my box, and then I can use CPanel to do my heavy lifting for me. [Although I've noticed, watching phpBB, that they lag behind the release of stable releases by a few days...]
My provider offers both cPanel and Fantastico.
Fantastico offers v. 1.5 and cPanel (9.9.9-STABLE 15) offers v. 1.02. That is how I found WordPress was through the auto-install feature my ISP offers.
On a side note, my provider encourages people to use WordPress over M******Type because the other one does not play nice with their servers.
I installed WordPress via cPanel (Fantastico) some months ago, and I am in love. I'm fully capable of installing the script myself but I don't keep up with script updates, and I hate having to "reinstall" something that's working perfectly fine — but now cPanel does it for me. Very, very nice.
Although my host uses cPanel – here's an explanation they gave me for some of (including WP) earlier versions of the auto install scripts.
"For stability reasons we test new releases for 3 months before we start offering them to our customers."
I can confirm that the latest version is "1.5-1.0″ (i.e. 1.5) in the cPanel-recommended RELEASE tree.
It all depends on your how often your provider updates their cPanel software. Mine had WP 1.5 within a day of its official release. Mostly due to the fact it accounted for 70% of the installs people used Fantastico for. My buddy has had to wait for several weeks (and several emails) to get his provider to update the software. Send an email to your host – its a painless install for them.
The main reason I signed up with vizaweb.com as a host (some time ago) was because they offered cpanel and fanastico. With fantastico, creating a WordPress blog was basically a one or two-step process.
mr.dew – you loose all your themes in the upgrade using cPanel. Just a warning – but its VERY easy to upgrade your blog this way. cheers.
The cpanel installer is actually an 'addon script'. The admin has to explicitely enable it (with one click). I believe (but I could be wrong) that Fantastico (not cPanel) actually converted the theme from 1.2.2 to 1.5.
Actually this Support Forum Postat some host's website seems to show that CPanel has had WordPress as an Add-on Script for about a year now!
Maybe it was just that we weren't aware of it so far.
Fantastico is seperate from CPanel addon scripts. I actually went looking for a Cpanel announcement but found the post I listed above, instead.
Excellent. We added the WordPress add-on script into our CPanel today so our clients have easy access to it. We also have it in our Fantastico install – - nothing like a little WordPress over kill!
That's ok – - we recommend WordPress to everyone, over any other blogging app out there. 98% of our clients are WordPress users.
This is great, Matt!
Ok, I'm a bit new to this, so call me an idiot. How does cPanel keep WP up-to-date? What about plugins and templates that I have loaded? Will they be overwritten? Is there a good description about this somewhere?
1.5 includes code to upgrade your 1.2 templates if all the proper directories are writable.
Comment by Matt – Wednesday April 6, 2005 @ 6:21 am
wow! This is a good information, I will ask the webmaster if they have this new upgrade feature from fantastico, for the advance upgrade probably to the newer version after 1.5 later, but i dont mind to upgrade it manually, though
Installing WP using Fantastico in Cpanel is an easy task. Just click and you get WP installed!

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Principality of Serbia Кнежевина Србија Kneževina Srbija |
Principality of Serbia in 1878
Capital | ||||||
Government | Principality | |||||
Knez (Prince) | ||||||
- | 1817–39 | Miloš Obrenović I (first) | ||||
- | 1868–82 | Milan Obrenović IV (last) | ||||
History | ||||||
- | Recognized by Porte | 1815 | ||||
- | Statehood Day | February 15, 1835c | ||||
- | Recognized | July 13, 1878d | ||||
- | Proclaimed Kingdom | 1882 | ||||
a: Moved to Belgrade in 1838. b: De jure in the 1830 Hatt-i Sharif. c: Outbreak of Serbian revolution, First Constitution adopted. d: De facto independent since 1867, de jure by the Treaty of Berlin. |
The Principality of Serbia (Serbian: Кнежевина Србија or Kneževina Srbija) was a semi-independent state in the Balkans that came into existence as a result of the Serbian revolution which lasted between 1804 and 1817. Its creation was negotiated first through an unwritten agreement between Miloš Obrenović, leader of the Second Serbian Uprising and Ottoman official Marashli Pasha. It was followed by the series of legal documents published by the Porte in 1828, 1829 and finally, 1830 — the Hatt-i Sharif.
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Despite oppression by the Ottoman authorities, first Karađorđe and then Miloš Obrenović, the revolutionary leaders, succeeded in their goal to liberate Serbia after centuries of Turkish rule. Turkish authorities acknowledged the state in 1830 by the charter known as the Hatt-i Sharif, and Miloš became a hereditary prince of the Serbian Principality.
At first, the principality included only the territory of the former Pashaluk of Belgrade, but in 1831-1833 it expanded to the east, south, and west. In 1867 the Ottoman army was expelled from the Principality, securing its de facto independence.[1] A new Constitution in 1869 defined Serbia as an independent state. Serbia was further expanded to the south-east in 1878, when its independence from the Ottoman Empire won full international recognition at the Treaty of Berlin. The Principality would last until 1882 when it was raised to the level of the Kingdom of Serbia.
The Principality was ruled by the Obrenović dynasty, except for a period under Prince Aleksandar of the Karađorđević dynasty. Princes Miloš and Mihailo Obrenović each reigned twice.
List of princes of the principality:
- Miloš Obrenović I (1817–1839) first reign
- Milan Obrenović II (1839) reigned for only 26 days and died
- Mihailo Obrenović III (1839–1842) first reign
- Aleksandar Karađorđević (1842–1858)
- Miloš Obrenović I (1858–1860) second reign
- Mihailo Obrenović III (1860–1868) second reign
- Milan Obrenović IV (1868–1882)
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By the beginning of the 18th century the Dutch scholar Hadrian Reland was able to suggest an eastward extension of Malay-like languages into the western Pacific. Following the three Pacific voyages of James Cook from 1768 to 1780, the close similarity of the Polynesian languages to one another—and their more general similarity to Malay—became widely known, although it was mistakenly believed, largely on racial grounds, that the languages of Melanesia were not related to those of Polynesia or to one another.
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Early classification work
By 1834 the British historian and linguist William Marsden was able to speak of languages such as Malagasy and Malay as Hither Polynesian and of the languages of the central and eastern Pacific as Further Polynesian, although he offered no name for the language family as a whole. The German scholar Wilhelm von Humboldt is generally credited with coining the name Malayo-Polynesian, although the word first appeared in print in an 1841 publication of his contemporary, the German linguist Franz Bopp. Several decades later Robert Codrington, a leading English scholar of the languages of Melanesia, objected to the designation Malayo-Polynesian on the grounds that it excludes the darker-skinned peoples of Melanesia. He referred instead to the "Ocean" family of languages. In 1906 the Austrian anthropologist and linguist Wilhelm Schmidt proposed that the Munda languages of eastern India and the Mon-Khmer languages of mainland Southeast Asia form a language family, which he christened Austroasiatic (meaning "southern Asian"). Primarily on the basis of similarities in verbal affixes, Schmidt further suggested that the Malayo-Polynesian languages and the Austroasiatic languages form a superfamily that he designated Austric. In accordance with his newly coined terminology he substituted Austronesian ("southern islands") for the older family name. Both names were used extensively in the 20th century, although since the mid-1960s the name Malayo-Polynesian has been restricted to various large subgroups of Austronesian rather than applied to the language family as a whole.
The first analysis of Austronesian languages to make use of the comparative method of linguistics is attributed to the Dutch-Indonesian scholar H.N. van der Tuuk, whose comparisons during the 1860s and '70s showed that various languages in the Philippines and Indonesia could be related to a common ancestor through recurrent similarities in the forms of words. Van der Tuuk's central achievement in comparative linguistics was the establishment of what later came to be known as the RGH law, or van der Tuuk's first law; it describes the recurrent sound correspondence of Malay /r/ to Tagalog /g/ and Ngaju Dayak /h/, as in Malay urat, which corresponds to Tagalog ugat and Ngaju Dayak uhat 'vein.' In addition, van der Tuuk's grammar of the Toba Batak language of northern Sumatra, published in two volumes between 1864 and 1867, stands as one of the earliest attempts to represent a non-Western language in terms of inductively derived categories rather than in terms of traditional Latin grammar. Despite his many achievements, however, van der Tuuk's work included only languages in Indonesia and the Philippines. In the 1880s the Dutch Sanskrit scholar Hendrik Kern began a series of studies that in principle encompassed the entire Austronesian family, drawing on data from both island Southeast Asia and the Pacific. The first true systematizer in the Austronesian field was the Swiss scholar Renward Brandstetter, whose work in the period 1906–15 led to the reconstruction of a complete sound system for what he called Original Indonesian and the compilation of a very preliminary comparative dictionary. Like van der Tuuk, however, Brandstetter worked only on the Austronesian languages of island Southeast Asia.
The work of Otto Dempwolff
The modern study of the Austronesian languages is generally traced to the German medical doctor and linguist Otto Dempwolff, whose three-volume Comparative Phonology of Austronesian Word Lists, published between 1934 and 1938, established a more complete sound system than that of Brandstetter and further took account of languages in all the major geographic regions rather than just insular Southeast Asia. Dempwolff also published the first comprehensive comparative dictionary of Austronesian languages, with some 2,200 reconstructed words based on evidence from 11 modern languages: Tagalog, Toba Batak, Javanese, Ngaju Dayak, Malay, and Malagasy (which he called Indonesian languages); Sa'a and Fijian (called Melanesian languages); and Tongan, Futunan, and Samoan (called Polynesian languages). Although Dempwolff's phonological reconstruction has undergone considerable revision, especially in light of evidence from the aboriginal languages of Taiwan, and although his comparative dictionary is now very much out of date, his work remains the foundation for much of what has followed.
Classification and prehistory
Major subgroups
Given the size of the Austronesian family, the subgrouping of the languages is a matter of some importance, bearing on, among other things, the determination of the Austronesian homeland. Until the 1930s the branches of Austronesian were customarily identified with purely geographic labels: Indonesian, Melanesian, Micronesian, and Polynesian. The inadequacy of this subdivision is apparent; Polynesian, for example, is known to encompass not only the languages of Polynesia but also Polynesian Outlier languages of both Melanesia and Micronesia. Moreover, each of the other geographically defined groups turns out to be a heterogeneous collection of languages that belong to more than one linguistically defined group.
The first breakthrough in the subgrouping of the Austronesian languages was made by Dempwolff in the second volume of his distinguished trilogy, where he concluded that the languages of Polynesia and most of those of Melanesia and Micronesia share a number of innovative features that are most plausibly attributed to changes in a single protolanguage, which he named Urmelanesisch (Proto-Melanesian) and which is known today as Proto-Oceanic. The Oceanic hypothesis maintains that all Austronesian languages east of a line that runs through Indonesian New Guinea at approximately 138° E longitude—except for Palauan and Chamorro of western Micronesia—are descended from a single protolanguage spoken many generations after the initial breakup of Proto-Austronesian itself.
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The Dallas-Fort Worth area will see the second-fastest growing service sector employment this year, behind only New York, according to a new forecast from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.
The D-FW area is expected to generate more than 66,000 service producing jobs this year – employment that fuels demand for office space, according to a new PwC report.
Along with New York and D-FW, Los Angeles, Houston and Atlanta also top the list of cities expected to see the most service-producing employment in 2013.
"The job creation in these MSAs is a main reason they remain preferred investment locations," PwC analysts said. "Overall the office sector's recovery can also be attributed to growth in specific office-space-using industries, such as energy, areas of healthcare and the booming high tech arena."
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Breakfast at Tiffany's will make another go of it on Broadway. The George Peppard-Audrey Hepburn movie classic -- first adapted for the stage in 1966 with Richard Chamberlain and Mary Tyler Moore as the leads -- closed during previews, never having officially opened. It's considered one of the greatest Broadway disasters of the '60s. Now Emilia Clarke, from HBO's Game of Thrones will try to fill Hepburn's shoes. The production team promises this production, set to open next February, will more closely resemble Truman Capote's novella, which was somewhat rougher edged than the big-screen version. While there will be a new script and score, there's no word yet on whether the 1961 movie's signature song, "Moon River," will be retained.
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When you use a very loud explosive voice, you can cause significant damage to your vocal cords and that can occur with just one yell. And that can lead to serious damage. A single yell will either produce a hemorrhage that will go away, or a polyp, or hemorrhagic polyp that may be permanent, unless you have it surgically removed.
So how do you know if you've damaged your vocal cords?
You'll start to hear your voice crack a little bit or get a little bit raspy, and that should be your clue that something is wrong here. And what can you do to save them?
Physicians recommend you keep quiet, give the cords a rest. Drink water to keep the cords moist. If you must cheer warm up your cords before the game.
And doctors recommend once you warm up, yell with one blast, not with a lot of words. Yelling and saying words is actually a lot harder than just like holding out a tone, like a singer would do. If you have hoarseness that lasts 24 hours or longer, it could mean possible problems. You may need therapy or even surgery to correct the problem. It all depends on how enthusiastic you've been.


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I really need help getting back on track, I am tracking before eating but then I feel weird, like I must eat and I find whatever. Today was crisps, only a handful at most but still it means I'm going to go over as I have a meal tonight. It'll basically be potatoes, veg and gravy since it's a carvery and I'm newly vegetarian.
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When I start getting zucchini in my farm share, this recipe jumps to mind. It's a delicious little snack, and it's a fun way for my children to eat zucchini. It's one vegetable that they don't like in any other form, so I make this recipe a lot!
1 1/4 cup gluten-free flour*
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½ tsp. baking soda
½ tsp. salt
½ cup maple syrup
1/3 cup mashed banana or 1/3 cup applesauce
¼ cup coconut oil
1 egg
1 cup shredded zucchini
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and grease a 24-mini-muffin pan and a mini-loaf pan.
- Sift the dry ingredients into a small bowl.
- In a large bowl, mix the wet ingredients together and then add the dry ingredients. Stir together to combine, and then fold in the zucchini.
- Bake the mini-muffins for 20-25 minutes and the mini-loaf for 45 minutes. Alternately, if you have 2 mini-muffin pans, bake the whole batch in mini-muffin form.
- Cool on a wire rack.
Price Breakdown
This recipe costs $3.96 to make, or $.33 per serving. A serving is made up of 3 mini-muffins or ¼ of the small loaf. This is a delicious, nutritious, affordable snack that you can feel good about giving to your children (if you don't eat them all yourself first).
*My gluten-free flour mix is 4 parts brown rice flour, 2 parts tapioca flour, 1 part potato starch, and ½ tsp. xanthan gum for every cup of flour.
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Technical Abstract: United States farmers typically spend over $10 billion annually on commercial fertilizer. Chemical inputs such as nitrogen (N) are essential for maintaining crop yields; however, farmers may apply excessive N inputs as an insurance policy. Nitrogen fertilizer consumption in the U.S. quadrupled from 3 metric million tons in 1961 to over 12 metric million tons in 2004, and per ha N fertilizer use also quadrupled (from 20 kg/ha to 87 kg/ha) during the same period. Increase in N use has been associated with the impairment of U.S. streams, lakes, and aquifers. The objective of this research was to develop an integrated farm-level economic and risk analysis framework for tradeoff analysis between farm profitability and environmental externalities. We used field data from experimental treatments carried out from 1990-2003 on 36 0.4-ha plots at the Northeast Iowa Agricultural Research and Demonstration Farm in Nashua, IA USA. Experimental data were used to estimate an economic budget for each plot in order to assess costs and profitability (gross margin). A constrained Response Surface Method (RSM), including selected optimization algorithms (i.e., steepest descent or ascent), was employed to find the optimum surface regions of corn and soybean profitability subject to two constraints representing environmental externalities - N measured in tile drainage and total N measured in the soil profile from each experimental plot. Results indicated that there was no one single point of optimal tradeoff between economics and the environment, and that tradeoffs between a farmer's profit and environmental externalities vary significantly depending on the choice of crop, crop rotation, and tillage system.


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3:30pm Wednesday 2nd March 2011 in Non-league blog By Matt Donlan, Sports reporter
THE events over the last week at Rossendale United are certainly showing the problems and pressures associated with non-league football in the pyramid.
People don't realise just what running a club entails – and there is responsibility for the club owners to step up to the plate.
But equally managers and volunteers have to carry out the menial tasks as well.
This ain't Old Trafford and the riches of the Premier League...the grim reality of lower non-league football means that any jobs that need doing have to be carried out by volunteers.
And if there are no volunteers or other eager workers then the club has no chance of survival.
It's funny at times like this how so many people populate internet message boards and the like and say that a club can't go bust because there is too much support and tradition and someone needs to put their hand in their pocket.
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It's the first day of spring and it feels like it. I was just getting sick of sweaters and my floor length black down coat. Time for bright colours and warm temperatures. There are flowers on my desk and I'm hoping that this weekend we can go to Eastern Market and see what's available for buying and canning. I'm tired of stews and shepherds pie. It's time for salads for dinner and asparagus and those lovely early spring veggies. This spring I want to wear dresses and skirts and get a little more vitamin D. I'm looking forward to the end of the school year and summers up at the farm. The season approaching is always my favourite and right now I am jazzed for spring.
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Posted on 02.22.2010 11:42 by Maxx Biker Filed under: Triumph | roadster | Triumph Street Triple
It may sound hard to believe, but the Street Triples are actually 2009 spec bikes. Furthermore, the simple 2010 model year doesn't even get a whole new color range, so the real question here is: in which chapter did the 2009 model years lack and, implicit, what did
105-bhp fuel injected inline-triple engine
Triumph needed to improve on the 2010 models? Our answer is that virtually nothing as the bikes are being powered by Daytona's 675cc, liquid-cooled, DOHC, inline three-cylinder engine from which British engineers ensure, with a multipoint sequential electronic fuel injection, they get 105bhp at 11,700 rpm and 50ft.lbf at 9,200 rpm out of. A proven performer on the chassis it first rolled off the production line with, the engine is being mounted on the same agile and confidence-inspiring unit. So if it is to look at the big picture here, the Street Triple gets the best from the Daytona (engine, tranny, chassis) and the best from the Speed Triple (that incomparable British naked look).
With the introduction of the Triumph Street Triple R, the brits have shown they've truly got the hang of the middleweight streetfighter class and they did it in their own unique style. This involves a 675cc liquid-cooled, DOHC, inline three-cylinder engine borrowed from the Daytona and fitted on an extremely versatile chassis as well as loads of style, all saying the "I'm different!" words. While technically, the Triumph Street Triple R carries over unchanged, visually we would have to admit that it now looks like an even better polished jewel thanks to the black paint with gold wheels and decals 2010 paint scheme, while matte orange and matte grey are also available. Weighing in at 416 lbs/189 kg wet and disposing of the same engine performance, the Street Triple R got the suspension setup of its supersport sibling ever since last year and this is now a characteristic of the simple Street Triple as well. Offering a comfortable riding position, sporty and yet user-friendly engine and entirely different looks, we won't dare considering this a stripped-down Triumph Daytona 675, but a stylish naked backed up by serious engine performance. Try not to love it and send us a message if you succeed.
As mentioned before, the Street Triple is Triumph's ingenious way of diversifying their urban sports lineup basing on already selling and consecrated models, the Daytona 675 and the Speed Triple 1050. After much spying/rendering from motorcycle journalists and the unveiling of a first official picture, the bike was officially presented at the Triumph Tridays in Neukirchen, Austria. The engine featured softer internal parts such as the pistons and cams for a broader powerband than Daytona's and the best of it was the fact that it didn't look, sound and feel like a middleweight motor, powering the Street Triple on top of riders preferences. Some dealers even reported six months waiting lists for the amazing new model. The 2009 Triumph Street Triple R came in as an extension of that very same model and will surely carry on being produced in parallel until Triumph finds another ingenious way to create a brand new model.
Yamaha manages to deliver almost in the same way their FZ6 S2 / ABS urban sports bike. The bike gets an R6-based fuel-injected 600cc, liquid-cooled, four-stroke, forward-inclined parallel four-cylinder, DOHC engine and FZ1 styling. Like the Triumph, it features a six-speed gearbox and performance figures are worthy of this comparison; 98 hp at 12,000 rpm and 63.1 Nm at 10,000 rpm.
The Kawasaki ER-6n fits in the same category, but the bike's 649cc, four-stroke, liquid-cooled, DOHC, four-valve per cylinder motor only gets two cylinder and manages to develop 48.5 lb/ft at 7,000 rpm. This positions Triumph right in between the two Japanese bikes, which are kind of like the extremes of the class.
The Daytona 675 may have donated the engine, tranny and chassis, but the Speed Triple came in with the distinctive streetfighter look that suit the Street Triple and Street Triple R so well. While the first one features the same Jet Black, Fusion White colors and the new Tornado Red one, but still nothing to set it apart from the previous model year, 2010's "R" model benefits of preferential treatment and the makeover is outstanding. Two new colors - Matte Graphite, Matte Blazing Orange – cover the same impressively finished bodywork and the two-tone black and graphite saddle meets the finishing standards while making a smooth pass from the 4.6 gallons gas tank and the fairly small rear end. The slightly wider aluminum handlebars are Magura tapered and the upside down forks are anodized black to enhance the bike's aggressive look.
Independently of paint scheme, the bike gets "R" graphics so that your mates know you're riding the latest and most beautiful Street Triple motorcycle yet to be produced.
"Riding the new R was exactly what I had hoped it would be and had wished Triumph would have done with the Street Triple in the first place. The extra feel and power from the Daytona's radial-mount calipers is now there allowing for very easy modulation of the more powerful brakes." – motorcycle "Blame it on its ridiculously friendly liquid-cooled 675cc Inline Three engine, pulled from last year's Daytona 675 Supersport (however, retuned with a lower redline and different camshaft profiles for increased low and mid-range torque). Simply put, the engine is a masterpiece. It is as mild or wild as your right wrist commands." – motorcycle-usa Throttle response and fuel mapping are as good as it gets. Heeding Milky's advice, I "banged" the silky-shifting gearbox into sixth and held 'er pinned through a series of blind left-hand bends... But I must sheepishly admit the rev counter read 2500 rpm at the time! - cycleworld "After getting oriented with riding on the wrong side of the road, the Street Triple R didn't take long to get used to. Though the seat height is a tad taller, it was hardly noticeable in the saddle. What was noticeable was the sweet joy that bellowed out the exhaust-the sound that comes from the inline triple could make Pavarotti cry." – sportrider "...I'm riding up the mountain as fast as the Street Triple R will go. 123MPH the instruments tell me a bit later and the places where you can really pin the throttle are all uphill. The 108 horsepower 675cc triple engine is good for more than that, but there's no real desire in me to go any faster on a naked motorcycle." – raptorsandrockets "It's the motor you'll remember most, though. Quite simply, this engine sets standards by which the rest of the class must judge itself and, so far, nothing I've tried has matched it." – telegraph
The low starting prices also bring an enormous contribution to the notoriety of Triumph's Street Triple models. So the base model comes with an MSRP that starts at $8,899, while the "R" model's MSRP begins at $9,599. This is the advantage of the two models not being significantly renewed for 2010.
The Triumph Street Triple 675 has become from the kind of bike that you always loved and planned on buying some day, into one for which you've already made a deposit and count the days until your dealer calls. Call it the "R" effect or any other way, but I bet you won't abstain yourself from buying the high spec version.


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Paradise Beneath Her Feet
Isobel Coleman shows how Muslim women and men are fighting back with progressive interpretations of Islam to support women's rights in a growing movement of Islamic feminism.
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Isobel Coleman shows how Muslim women and men are fighting back with progressive interpretations of Islam to support women's rights in a growing movement of Islamic feminism.
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It is time for multinational corporations to come to the same realization -- funding education and training female business leaders is good for business.
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Sir Michael Barber, head of the Global Education Practice at McKinsey & Company argues that the key to improving educational systems is setting clear, internationally benchmarked standards, and attracting and training good teachers and school leaders.
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Anne-Marie Slaughter, Former Director of Policy Planning at the U.S. State Department discusses the actions taken by international actors in Libya, and why the same measures cannot be taken in Syria. Slaughter called the situation in Syria "heartbreaking" and said "it looks like in many ways it looks like this government might get away with the same kind of brutality that we saw 20 years ago." However, she argued that while the U.S. is doing everything in its power diplomatically, it is not in a position to use force in Syria.
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Isobel Coleman says that while Osama bin Laden had remained an important symbol to some, his global relevance diminished long before his death.
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The United States should see family planning as a foreign policy priority that leads to healthier and more prosperous societies, and should increase funding, resources and support for those countries with the highest unmet need, argues CFR's Isobel Coleman.
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Investment in voluntary international family planning is one of the most cost-effective ways to strengthen critical U.S. foreign policy objectives, including improving global health, promoting economic development, stabilizing fragile states, and encouraging environmental sustainability.
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Human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi discusses the impact of the Arab Spring on the democratic movement in Iran with Isobel Coleman, Director of the Council on Foreign Relations' Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy Initiative.
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Alyse Nelson, Co-Founder and CEO of Vital Voices, discusses the organization's work to empower women around the world with Isobel Coleman, Director of CFR's Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy Initiative.
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Isobel Coleman states, "While Egyptians have every right to take pride in the 'people protests' that brought down the government of Hosni Mubarak, such revolutionary euphoria is premature."
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Daniel Yohannes, CEO of the Millennium Challenge Corporation, discusses the MCC's work with Isobel Coleman, Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy and Director of the Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy Initiative at the Council on Foreign Relations.
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Dambisa Moyo, economist and author of "How the West Was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly -- and the Stark Choices Ahead," shares her thoughts on U.S. economic leadership, China's rise, and the developments in the Middle East with Isobel Coleman, director of CFR's Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy Initiative.
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Isobel Coleman writes: "If a brave new world of electoral politics does emerge, women's rights activists will have to be savvy - commanding international support without raising fears of undue Western influence."
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Isobel Coleman and John Chen examine whether opportunities created by and for women in Iraq will be able to continue.
Whatever change follows Egypt's political turbulence, any new government will have to confront the country's rampant unemployment, cronyism, and other factors impeding growth and development, in addition to constitutional reform, says CFR's Isobel Coleman.
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Having just returned from Egypt, the Council on Foreign Relations' Isobel Coleman sat down with CFR Director of Studies James Lindsay to discuss the recent turmoil in the country.
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Isobel Coleman discusses Yemeni reactions to the uprisings in Tunisia.
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Isobel Coleman says investing in midwifery programs gives Haiti's next generation a chance.
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Isobel Coleman and Charles Landow discuss how lack of good governance in Africa condemns millions to poverty and fails to unleash the continent's great potential.
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Four CFR fellows weigh in on the effectiveness of the State Department's Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review recommendations.
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This module features teaching notes by CFR Senior Fellow Isobel Coleman, author of Paradise Beneath Her Feet: How Women Are Transforming the Middle East, along with other resources to supplement the text. Dr. Coleman demonstrates how influential Islamic feminist thinkers are driving social change in the Middle East to create economic, political, and educational opportunities for women.
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Isobel Coleman and Mary Ellen Iskenderian discuss several commitments aimed at women and girls from the 2010 Clinton Global Initiative.
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A transformation is taking place behind the headlines in the Middle East as women are earning more college degrees, having fewer children, and are entering the workforce in unprecedented numbers. Isobel Coleman talks with Rocky Mountain PBS about these trends and their new relevance after the Arab uprisings.
On DEFCON3 with KT McFarland, Isobel Coleman speaks about the economic crisis that Egypt faces, including dwindling foreign currency reserves, strikes in Port Said, and a plague of locusts.
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I've recently had the pleasure of working with Miche Hoffer, a former Swedish champion in the decathalon, who was able to point out my lack of hip extension in my latest rabbitting job at Stanford.
Hip extension is the center of all athletic movements and it would be a crime to not utilize it with all the strength I've gained from CrossFit.( BTW, I highly recommend checking out Tim Ferris' 4 Hour Body where he outlines Allison Felix's deadlift program. It's legit as me and my buddy/CFSM trainer Tuan have seen big gains (20+lbs) in one month).
Since adopting a pose method of running, I've noticed a general tendency to pull the foot off the ground too early, resulting in lack of hip extension. I think what tends to happen is the thought to pull asap as soon as the foot hits the ground. What ends up happening is:
- No full push off from the big toe
- Lack of extension through the grounded leg
Miche worked with me on a few hurdle drills; focusing on opening the chest, leaning into the wall, squeezing the glutes, hips fully extended. While one leg is anchored on the ground fully extended, the athlete rotates the other over the imaginary hurdle about hip height. You should be on your toes for this exercise…
Which leads to my next problem. My inability to fully toe off on my left foot. I have a severe pain on the top of the foot where the shoe laces tie and after looking for some answers, stumbled across this blog post by gobarefooting.
The best part of it was the picture of the muscles and connective tissues which makes it easy to trace origins of the pain. I found hammering the tibialis, peroneus and soleus with the lacross ball helps tremendously.
I wish that would have led me to the end of my quest for being a fully functioning, well balanced healthy athlete that can run a 3:50 mile/1:44 in the 800m while deadlifting 400+ (I'm 1/3 of the way there, btw). With the recent help of Jessica Moore, a corrective exercise specialist and pilates instructor, I've been focusing on strengthening the smaller stablizer muscles that often go overlooked in training. These movements are awesome for finishers after the WOD or for recovery days in addition to mobility work. They have also been specifically tailored to me. As an athlete I have terrible thoracic spine/shoulder mobility which can also lead to hyperextension. The exercises below focus on this as well as hip/medial glute strength. A few include:
- Supine crossover leg swings (arms in a T, cross one leg over the body to try to touch the opposite hand) 1×10
- 3D Bridging: basic version, abduction (soccer ball between knees, squeezing down as you go), adduction (band looped above knees, pressing out as you go). Focus on keeping all ten toes in contact with the floor throughout. 1×5-10 each.
- Torso rotation: on side, knees bent to 90 with bottom arm supporting head, top arm is reaching out in front of you. Reach top arm to ceiling, then open chest so that arm reaches to the other side. Your eyes should follow your gesture arm (ie the arm that's moving). 1×10
- Back Extension Series:
Prone on floor, feet hip distance with toes turned out and the tip of your nose in contact with the ground. Place a thin pad (like a towel or yoga mat) across the top of your hips (like where the belt on a pair of pants would sit) to give you some leverage.
W's, 1×10 Arms will form a W, thumbs point up. Squeeze your glutes to activate them, then lift the arms and legs off the ground while gliding the shoulders together behind you. Finish set with child's pose, hold for :10
T's, 1×10 Arms form a T shape, thumbs point up. Squeeze glutes to activate them, lift arms and legs off the ground while gliding the shoulder blades toward one another. Finish set with child's pose, hold for :10 - Side Plank Series:
Hip Drops (actually a controlled drop to ground), on elbow 1×5-10
:10-:15 hold with straight arm support
(this one can be done with a TRX when one is available, just set the cradles to about 18″-24″ off the floor) - Pilates Side Lying Series:
Lying on side, bottom arm is supporting head while top arm is long and hand rests on hip with palm flat. Hips and shoulders are stacked on top of one another and legs are straight.
Staggered Legs, 1×10 Lift top leg (about 8″-10″), then bring bottom leg up to join it. Float both legs down to floor together. Be careful not to let the lower back extend when you lift and keep the torso steady- no forward/back shifting. All movement should take place at the hip joint. - Leg Circles, 1×10 front, 1×10 back
Lift top leg (8″-10″) and draw a circle about the size of a basketball. Toes of the gesture leg are pointed and knee is straight. Imagine trying to lengthen the leg and the top side of your body so there is no lateral flexion. Again, all the movement should happen at the hip joint- no bent knees.
These actually weren't very easy at all. While doing these, think of firing order; glutes then hamstrings. You find yourself focusing very diligently on each movement.
In addition to all this, look out for a MWOD addressing the "toe off" malfunction
That said, I'm extremely grateful for all the wonderful coaches in my life that continue to help me become a better athlete. Our CrossFit community is truly amazing and I'm always learning something new! Thank you x 1,000,000.
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Davison opens martial arts studio in Decatur to teach life skills
Martial arts instructor James Davison tries to teach his students more than fighting skills. Continue Reading »
Student receives scholarship to Lyon College
Zachary Walker of Gravette has been accepted for admission to Lyon College and has been awarded an Honors Day scholarship. Continue Reading »
Palacios, Bond lead Gentry in goals
Girls play tough throughout season and advance to state semifinals last weekend
Ana Palacios enjoyed a huge junior season last year, scoring 29 goals and helping the Gentry Lady Pioneers return to the state soccer tournament. Continue Reading »
Athletes take honors at Meet of Champs
Gentry, Gravette and Decatur sent athletes to the Meet of Champions at Lake Hamilton High School on Saturday. Gentry freshman Mallory Morris took seventh in the 800-meter run with a time of 2:25.64. Continue Reading »
Gravette honors athletes at awards ceremony
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Trelawn Cottage
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Bedrooms | 2 |
Bathrooms | 1 |
Sleeps | 4 |
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Rental type | Cottage |
Minimum Stay | 1 night |
Living space | 60 square meters |
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Sleeps | 4 |
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Theme | Luxury, Romantic, Ski, Away from it all, Mountain, River |
Description from the owner
Self-contained cottage, with kitchen, sitting area, Pot belly stove fire place, TV and DVD, Juliet balcony with river views, patio and garden furniture, hot jacuzzi spa. Queen bed upstairs and two single beds in downstairs room. one bathroom with laundry.
Separated from the house by a small orchard, this provides privacy for those that want it.
Trelawn Place is 5 minutes from Queenstown. If you want to use ski transport to get to Coronet Peak? The buses go pass the gate. The Coronet Ski field is 12 minutes drive from here. The cottage benefits from full winter sun. Enjoy a hot spa after a days skiing. If the cottage is not availa...Read more
Trelawn Cottage
Queenstown, South Island, New Zealand
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The Cottage sits on a plateau 40m above the Shotover river. Beyond the river and to the north the main view is the coronet ski field 10 kms away.
Trelawn has a sheltered micro climate due to the Queenstown hill being the southern boundary to the property. Most guests will take a photo of the house with the huge big mountain back drop behind.
A large lawn and garden offers many places to sit and relax. The Gazebo and Jacuzzi are popular places to relax in the evening.
A 5 minute drive will have you in Queenstown, 12 minutes drive north is Coronet Peak Ski field, or if you drive across the river and head to Arrowtown 3 minutes north you will find one of New Zealand's best restaurants, this being the "Gantleys" restaurant.
Trelawn Place is surrounded on 3 sides by the Shotover river, see our photos of the location. Originally this location was a gold mining claim. You can see the old miners cottage on the site, as well as the old diggings that the Chinese miners did. You are free to walk our two corgi dogs around the hill side to see the larger gold mining area, called the Sugar Loaf.
The large rose garden is used for weddings. Ocassionally guests can be picked up from Trelawn by Helicopter for a scenic flight to Milford Sound.
The garden has featured in several NZ house and garden magazines over the years. Being keen gardeners you will see lots of colour in the hill side garden behind the house from early spring to late autumn.
The Shotover river was famous for the amount of gold that was extracted from it. Nowadays it is well know for its Jet boats. You can watch them for free from the Cherry tree house. Again look at our photos.
Nery and Michael have been hosting guests since 1989, along with this, they have enjoyed traveling to most places. With this experience they enjoy helping people with their exploration of the southern regions of the South Island. Michael is a keen skier.
Location Type Away from it all, Mountain, River
Rates shown in $ USD (Rental listed originally in NZD) (change)
Date | Weeknight | Weekend Night | Weekly | Monthly | Minimum Stay |
Rate Summary | $202 - $239 | $202 - $263 | $1,416 | $6,069 | 1 night |
Jan. 3 2013 - Apr. 30 2013 summer |
$239 | $239 | $1,416 | - | 1 night |
Jan. 11 2013 - Apr. 30 2013 summer 3 nights |
$223 | $223 | $1,416 | - | 3 nights |
May. 1 2013 - Oct. 31 2014 Nightly rate |
$239 | $263 | $1,416 | - | 1 night |
May. 1 2013 - Dec. 23 2013 winter 5 nights |
$223 | $223 | $1,416 | - | 5 nights |
Jun. 29 2013 - Sep. 28 2013 weekly rate |
$202 | $202 | $1,416 | $6,069 | 7 nights |
All Other Dates | $239 | $239 | $1,416 | - | 1 night |
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Rental fees
- Additional guests - $40 / person - Per-Person Adjustment - Fee applies to parties of more than 2 guest(s)
Additional notes from owner
Discounted rates are available for direct books for reservations of 5 nights or more.
payment by credit card incurrs a 3% bank service fee.
Breakfast can be provided for a extra charge of $15pp
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What Past Guests Are Saying
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boise idahoExcellent stay
Plenty of room in a beautiful setting. Very quiet but less than 5 minutes drive to noisy Queenstown. Also a great place to take a "day off" on a trip and relax. Will highly recommend to friends.
Christchurch, New ZealandPerfect location for quiet Queenstown stay.
Very comfortable stay - convenient for Coronet and beautiful location; nice to come back after a days exploits and soak in the hot tub overlooking the Shotover. Michael had the fire lit for our return every day and when they found out it was our son's birthday during our stay, Nerry produced a fantastic home made cake for him on our return from ski-ing. Thanks again.
Response from Michael Clark & Nery Howard - 08/17/2012
It was a pleasure to have you stay.
We look forward to seeing you again in the future.
All the best
Nery and Michael -
SingaporeVistas like no other...
This was our third stay with Michael and Nery over the past sven years, and it just keeps getting better. Having made multiple trips to Queenstown over the years, I'm quite certain there are few places that offer views and hospitality as wonderful as that on offer at Trelawn. Fate willing, my family and I plan to make many a return trip in the years to come!
Canyon LakeBetter then the Marriotts and the Intercontinental
We traveled all over australia and New Zealand on our trip. We stayed at Marriott's in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. In Melbourne we stayed one night at the Intercontinental. I can honestly say that this place beat them all. The view was spectacular, the setting was perfect and Mike and his wife were the perfect host. We stayed in one of the "cabins" way more then a cabin. Close enough to downtown Queenstown but far enough out that you get the feeling your part of the scenery. Ten minute drive into town. Very pleased with this experience.
ChristchurchFriendly, warm, accommodation and magnificent scenery
We had a fantastic weekend staying at Michael and Nery's cottage. We were made to feel welcome and Michael kept the fire well stocked for us so that we were nice and warm.
We loved the fact the accommodation is pet friendly and our 4 legged companion got to join us there. Michael and Nery even took him for a walk! Couldn't have asked for more. The cottage is lovely and cosy and the jacuzzi at the foot of the garden is just what u need after a day on the slopes.
Can't wait to visit again! We have already recommend the accommodation to friends. -
Coffs Harbour, AustraliaMemorable
This was my second vacation at Trelawn, my first being in Dec 2001. Because of my previous experience of their hospitality, I was not about to consider anywhere else to stay in Q'town. Michael & Nery don't just offer accommodation, they provide a home away from home in a uniquely country homestead atmosphere. Since my first visit in '01, we have become good friends and I very much value that friendship. The welcome upon arrival and the extra little things they provide to their guests continually sees them going that extra yard. Whether it's booking trips or providing helpful advice on where to eat or updated weather forecasts, nothing seems to be too much trouble for Michael & Nery. The rooms are spacious, friendly and comfortable and filled with ambience. The gardens, lawns and the spectacular location all go towards providing a memorable vacation. Getting to walk the dogs in the mornings was a particular highlight also. I look forward to a 3rd visit in the next two years. If it's a friendly down home country experience that you are looking for at a reasonable price, then Michael & Nery's Trelawn Guest House is the place for you.
Response from Michael Clark & Nery Howard - 05/04/2011
Thank you Roger.
Pippa Bowden
JohannesburgAwesome accomodation in the perfect spot
The warm service, exceptionally comfortable accomodation and wow scenary really made Trelawn and Queenstown the highlight of our trip to New Zealand. Thanks, defintely on the revisit list!
Response from Michael Clark & Nery Howard - 09/19/2010
Thanks Pippa, Lindsay and Andrew booked the cottage this morning.
We look forward to meeting them and if you are able to get over here again. The nicest months are late March April and early May.
Kind regards
Michael and Nery
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