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Steelers hotel demands leaked
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Web site lists unusual requests for team's road trips
Posted: Wednesday August 15, 2007 5:48PM; Updated: Wednesday August 15, 2007 6:22PM
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- When the Pittsburgh Steelers go on the road, their equipment managers get filet mignon, even if it must be eaten on plastic plates.
There is water, water everywhere. And nobody asks for a suite, not even owner Dan Rooney. But Rooney gets foam pillows only -- no down pillows are allowed.
The Steelers' 17-page hotel contract rider that lists their requirements down to the tiniest detail was leaked to the Web site The Smoking Gun this week. While the NFL regular season hasn't started yet, the Steelers have played one road preseason game and have another Saturday at Washington.
The Steelers have not commented about the document being made public. The Web site did not specify how it obtained the rider.
The rider is provided to the hotels where the Steelers stay and is much like those for rock stars and other traveling entertainment acts. It stipulates what services and food are to be provided and what is not allowed -- namely, alcohol. All minibar alcohol must be removed and players can't request it from room service.
The Steelers also want all players on the same hotel floor or, if that isn't possible, on adjacent floors with no outside guests on those floors. Meeting rooms must be private, and weddings, parties and musical events can't take place in adjoining rooms.
The Steelers' rider makes no specific room type requests, such as a suite for Rooney or coach Mike Tomlin.
The rider also provides sample lists of names and room numbers, both alphabetical and numerical, that show the hotel how to print up the information. The examples include some interesting names: Chuck Noll, who hasn't coached the Steelers since 1991; Tom Donahoe, who was let go as director of football operations in 2000; and Richard Rydze, a former team doctor who was questioned earlier this year about his dealings with an Orlando, Fla., pharmacy that is accused of being involved in steroid distribution.
Also, the hotel staff is asked to contact Chet Fuhrman if it cannot supply any of the food specified for meals. Fuhrman was the conditioning coordinator under former coach Bill Cowher but was not retained by Tomlin.
Other highlights of the rider, which is printed in the identical font the team uses for many of its news releases:
--A Catholic priest and a meeting room must be provided for a Mass the day the team arrives. The Rooney family is devoutly Catholic.
--A hotel security representative with a master key should be available to accompany the Steelers' security director during the players' bed check that occurs just before 11 p.m. on the night before a game.
--Only Heinz ketchup may be provided for meals. Heinz paid $57 million for the naming rights at Heinz Field.
--The team will ship Gatorade to each hotel prior to arrival so it can be placed in iced coolers located on the players' floors.
--Players with a number of years in the league get single rooms, but many players are two to a room.
--While all NFL teams carefully monitor what their players eat at training camp and on the road, the Steelers don't serve only health food at meals. Among the items made available at the team snack on the night before a game are chicken wings, pizza, hamburgers, french fries, ice cream with toppings and cookies.
--Water must be available everywhere: in meeting rooms, at all meals and in iced coolers on the players' floors. There are numerous mentions of "heavy water consumption" throughout the rider.
--The pregame meal is to be served five hours before kickoff, or at 8 a.m. before a 1 p.m. Sunday game, and includes chicken breasts, filet mignon, prime rib, linguini, salad, fruit and various breakfast items, including made-to-order omelets. Because the equipment staff must go to the stadium early, filet mignon is to be packed for them in plastic containers.
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Re: Steelers hotel demands leaked
That is probably pretty close to the hotel rider than every team has.
I don't know why the article calls them "unusual requests".
And even though it is most likely last year's rider, this years is probably close to the same.Zeus wrote:
When are you going to realize that picking out the 20 bad throws this year and ignoring the 300 good ones does not make your point?
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Wow. I can't believe the demands that famous people and teams I guess put on hotels and stuff. Unbelieveable.
I get the most pissed off looks from people with my VKG 4 LFE Wisconsin license plate, and I LOVE IT!!
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That is probably pretty close to the hotel rider than every team has.
I don't know why the article calls them "unusual requests".
And even though it is most likely last year's rider, this years is probably close to the same.
Thanks to Josdin for the awesome sig!
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I need to get one of those riders written up for my trip to the Falcons game.........
"Rooms must be adjacent......"
"Rooms must be able to support about 30-40 PPO Tailgaters...."
"Rooms must have balconies so that BBQ grills won't smoke up the rooms....."
"Sufficient parking must be made available for all PPO Tailgaters....."
If they came through it would solve our Tailgating issue a we are only 5 blocks from the dome.Many many thanks to my talented friend Jos for the new Sig.
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I do not that any of those requests are unreasonable.
Heck, its $$$ for the hotel and you'd better believe the Steelers pay for it.
I do not think they are even comparible to rock stars and other famous twits.
I especially like the fact that Rooney does not need a suite.
He is a very humble person kike his father.
He is a great owner and I have a ton of respect for him and how he runs his team.
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I do not that any of those requests are unreasonable.
Heck, its $$$ for the hotel and you'd better believe the Steelers pay for it.
I do not think they are even comparible to rock stars and other famous twits.
I especially like the fact that Rooney does not need a suite.
He is a very humble person kike his father.
He is a great owner and I have a ton of respect for him and how he runs his team.
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ROXBURY — Selectmen learned Tuesday night that Central Maine Power Co. has acknowledged that it has more than $7 million of taxable property in town and will pay taxes on it.
That means Roxbury will receive a check this year for $39,629.90 for the company's new substation and portion of transmission line improvements relating to Record Hill Wind LLC's 22-turbine wind farm, John Sutton, board chairman, said.
"I'm glad it's finally settled," he said after reading into the record a letter dated Oct. 23, 2012, from Stephen F. Holt, lead analyst on local tax for Iberdrola USA Management Corp. of New Gloucester. The letter was sent to Roxbury's assessing agent Robert B. Stevens Jr. and to selectmen. CMP is a subsidiary of Iberdrola.
Holt wrote that as of April 1, 2012, CMP estimated the taxable value of the substation and portion of powerline improvements in Roxbury at $7,060,000.
"We thank you and the board for your patience while we investigated our records and sought additional confirmation from those involved in the project," Holt said.
He said the property would also be reported in the normal manner in CMP's property tax declaration starting with the 2013 property year.
Sutton and Selectmen Timothy Derouche and Mike Worthley thanked tax collector Renee Hodsdon for catching the oversight on CMP's part.
"That was nice," Sutton said. "We finally got CMP to realize they had a $7 million project here."
In related news, Sutton told town officials and residents at the meeting that he took a telephone inquiry from someone interested in putting four wind turbines on North Twin Mountain. He said the person didn't identify a developer or company. The area is south of Route 120 and the Record Hill project.
Now that wind turbines are in Roxbury's future, selectmen also learned the town needs to redo its 1993 Comprehensive Plan.
To that end, the board advertised this past spring and recently for people willing to serve on a comprehensive plan committee, but only one person responded, Sutton said.
That's why the board sought advice on law changes since 1993 and insight into how to rework the document to govern the future of the town from John Maloney of the Androscoggin Valley Council of Governments.
"When we did the Comprehensive Plan in 1993, wind turbines were not even on the horizon," Sutton said.
Maloney said back then communication towers were starting to become the only thing looming to consider.
Sutton said the town wasn't going to redo the plan until it had raised the necessary money, which it did earlier this year.
"We've advertised in the paper twice and we only have one volunteer," he said.
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Maloney said he would help the committee as an adviser. "I'm not here being a salesman, because if I was, I wouldn't be a planner," Maloney said.
In Maine, comprehensive plans adopted by towns from 1994 to 1996 will expire by the end of 2012, he said.
"Rumford is in the same boat as you are," Maloney said. However, he added, Rumford, which intends to seek more grants than Roxbury, is trying to redo its Comprehensive Plan to meet grant requirements.
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SEIKO Digital Wall Radio Controlled Clock - Calendar, Hygrometer, Thermometer, May 2005
Friday the 13th, 2005, the time display is universal :) - Thursday is the Kanji sign next to 13
Dear all (copy of post on PMWF.com from May 13th, 2005)
After our daughter's encounter with London April weather and a resulting pneumonia, I decided to equip each room with a hygrometer/thermometer. Thus on the compensation bank holiday of the labor day May 2nd when I got the VENTURA Loga I had already 3 of these SEIKO clocks in the bag... and did not tell anyone about it on PMWF.com ;-)
Calendar, Hygrometer and Thermometer. Since we are living in AC for most of the time, I wanted to avoid too low humidity and I want to control the temperature in every room. May Sales was on at a large mall and since these SEIKO clocks display the date only in Japanese (Kanji - Chinese script, one of Japan's scripts), they were reduced and for sale.
The CLOCKS run at +8 seconds per month, are easy to read and a please to read out. I was of course putting them all in the same location first to see whether temperature and hygrometer display were about the same. There are for openings in the back of the case for the temperature/humidity sensors. The manual is only in Japanese, but who cares if the setting is so easy.
Since my daughters ancestors were from China too, I want here to read at least some words in Chinese, thus these clocks seem ideal.
What I did not understand was, that the hospital my daughter spent a night, had no temperature indication in the room. Every time I went to visit her, it was either too hot and too cold. So I brought my home thermometer and calibrated the room control and made markings on the Honeywell wall mounted control. The offset from the AC control to the room temperature was 5 degrees Celsius. And this hospital says "World Class Service" every 5 meters in their long aisles. I went to talk to the management and said "Please do not simply copy ads and prices from US hospitals, please also copy their level of service!". I trust in a children's department in a good US hospital, there would be a room air thermometer. On our request to get one for our daughter's room, nada, zero... not even the hospital shop offered them for sale. Thus the May Day sale was just right.
See how a WIS can exploit pneumonia and family history to buy watches! :)
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Section Eight: Lights out for UB Football
|Doc Ulrich
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|Bob Deming
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As a player Urich played under Sid Gillman, George Blackburn and Woody Hayes and after graduating became an assistant to Ara Parseghian until 1966 when he would start his head coaching career in Buffalo.
Urich continued Buffalo's respectable records through his three year tenure. During his first season the Bulls defeated Delaware, Villinova, and Kent on their way to a 5-5 season. Close losses to Boston College and Cornell kept were among the games that cost UB a winning season. Despite the somewhat luke warm season UB did produce an All American and an ECAC All star player:
Gerald Lafountain was named an AP all American, A cause helped by the defensive ends 90 yard interception return against Delaware:
Buffalo's defense blanketed Delawares attack effectively. Gerry LaFountain, a defensive end, swiped one Delaware pass and galloped 90 yards for a touchdown. -- Auburn NY Citizen Advertiser 11/8/65
His 1966 mark of sixteen touchdowns is still the best season a UB running back has had when you account for the fact that teams only played ten games during the 60's and Starks played in 14 during the 2008 season.
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|Lee Jones
|James Starks
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Several other players from that years team would eventually move on to play professional ball.
- Edgar Greenard Poles (Linebacker, Edmonton)
- Ted Gibbons (DT, Toronto)
- Tom Hurd (DB, Orlando)
Urich followed up his initial season at UB with back to back winning campaigns of 6-4 in 1967 and 7-3 in 1968. After three years and a 17-11 record Urich, perhaps seeing the handwriting on the wall, left Buffalo and went on to coach at Northern Illinois who was starting up their own division one program. At NIU he would not find the success he had at UB and lasted just two seasons going 6-14. One of those wins came in 1970 when the Huskies would end UB's season with a 43-21 drubbing. As it turns out that game would be the last played by UB for seven years.
Culturally a good number of the staff and student body felt that in order for SUNY Buffalo to become an elite institution that the resources being spent on sports would have to be diverted elsewhere. Football was also seen by many in the student body as an 'establishment' activity in a very anti-establishment time.
In 1969 the UB student body voted to cut the mandatory athletic fee of 26$ per year, this left the football program on life support. The final nail in the coffin came on what could have been a marquee moment for UB. Their first home game televised on a major network provided what would be the event needed by those who wanted to end football. In 1970, ABC-TV regionally televised a 16-0 UB victory over Holy Cross at Rotary Field in the only game in UB history to be broadcast from Buffalo by a major network.
In the run up to the game, largely because of the national guard shootings at Kent, students prepared for a "moratorium," which consisted of a a march through Niagara Square, more protesting at Rotary Field.. The protesters were intent on making themselves seen and heard all across the United States. Because the game would also showcase a halftime show, featuring the UB "Pride of the East" marching band protesters decided that the game was the perfect venue.
While putting on an approved show at halftime which included field formations of peace signs and other anti war aspects a group of protesters realized that ABC had turned its cameras away from the field and toward main street. The irate students charged the field after the show was over are tore down a "Buffalo Welcomes ABC" sign and delaying the second half of the game. Later some protesters sarcastically lamented they had not come to the game armed, but given the campus riots in 1969 it's not a statement that was taken lightly by the administration.
Coach Deming had already doing everything he could do to contend with budget cuts:
Toward the end, with the handwriting plain on the bursar's wall, Buffalo Coach Bob Deming was fighting to save his program by buying at a discount from a sporting goods firm that was going out of business. He even changed to a cheaper type of laundry marker. -- Pat Ryan, ESPN 2/1/71
Coach Deming himself would leave the university and eventually up as the director of athletics at Ithaca a position that he held from 1980-1997. Deming is also a past president of both the Eastern College Athletic Conference and the Independent College Athletic Conference.
UB Joined a host of schools who dropped their division one programs during this period (This was a time when schools like LSU and Notre Dame were losing money) but few of them had had the recent success, or the future potential, of the university. North Campus was taking shape, the school was growing, and Buffalo was at the time still on of the top ten markets in the nation. It would take seven years for the university to restart football and another 30 until UB would again play division one.


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Sweet Christmas, every time Pierre McGuire and Mike Milbury are on the screen together I want to throw a brick through my TV. Milbury actually asked Sydney Crosby if he ever beat his dog during an interview during the 1st intermission. McGuire couldn't stop himself from orally fellating the Red Wings if his tounge were cut out and his lips sewn shut. It got so bad I started hoping Josh Mora would show up and take over the intermission report.
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But it wasn't enough money to cover the basics.
"When you sit there and write that check and you have 25 years to pay it off, it's a little daunting," said Mathis.
Money, or the lack thereof, is consuming every aspect of life for many recent graduates.
"You can buy a house with all the interest you pay on these loans," said Mathis.
She said she'll be 45 before all her debts are paid.
Jon Dewar, is the President of LLG Financial and said that one of the harsh realities of the increasing student loan debt, is how many people are defaulting.
"One out of eight is in default," said Dewar. "A lot of folks are not able to pay it back."
Dewar said graduates are relying so much on their family's support, that parents are now beginning to delay their retirement.
As for the other consequences?
"There's a trillion dollars in college debt out there and it's delaying families, it's delaying businesses or buying of homes, so it's definitely a real issue that we're facing."
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Winstead's career has been building steam over the past couple of years after some relatively high-profile roles -- including supporting parts in Bobby, Black Christmas, Factory Girl, and Grindhouse -- and while she didn't have the biggest role in Tarantino's Death Proof, I'm sure the sight of her in a cheerleader outfit managed to stick in the minds of a few of the audience members. Winstead will also be back in theaters this summer as John McClane's daughter in Live Free or Die Hard. You may remember that, at the Grindhouse junket, Winstead revealed to us that she'd have some ass-kicking to do in the film -- she won't just be a damsel in distress. Make It Happen looks to be Winstead's first foray into dancing but since she is a child star I'm sure there have been some dance lessons somewhere in her past. Production on Make It Happen is set to start this July, plenty of time to brush on a few steps if need be.


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Although she seems to have been openly gay in her private life for years, Jodie Foster has only recently publicly came out, in some quasi-official capacity.
Recently, as in last Sunday night at the Golden Globes.
Foster, who just turned 50 and is perhaps best known for films like The Silence of the Lambs and Maverick, was honored with the Cecille B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement. During her acceptance speech she talked a lot about her career and family
However, while reactions to celebrities coming out publicly are generally pretty enthusiastic, not all reactions to Foster's speech have been as favorable.
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I am sure, she garbled her message because of nerves,and what she was trying to ay was this: I'm alone, and there's someone that deserves mention becasue of the good she has done in my life. This means my secret is out, so paparazzi, you can stop stalking me, now.Nothing to see here. While this announcement may end my career, it needs to be made. Somethings are more important than money, and Sydney was it. Guess it's a life on reality TV for me now as 'the lesbian widow' or something.
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Samuel Sanchez finally won his first stage at the Tour de France on Thursday, but the title hopes of his fellow Spanish cyclist Alberto Contador suffered a surprise blow as the race headed into the mountains.
Australian Cadel Evans edged out defending champion Alberto Contador in a thrilling finish to Tuesday's 172.5km fourth stage of the Tour de France from Lorient to Mur-de-Bretagne.
Belgium's Philippe Gilbert won a dramatic first stage of the Tour de France Saturday as defending champion Alberto Contador lost valuable time after being held up by a late mass crash.
With the Tour de France nearly upon us, here's a shout-out to Wordsworth's wingman, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who coined the phrase "willing suspension of disbelief" -- which comes in particularly handy when you're watching a pro bike race.
Alberto Contador wrapped up his second Giro d'Italia victory -- and sixth grand tour success -- after the 21st and final stage time-trial in Milan, won by Briton David Millar.
Spaniard Igor Anton claimed the most prestigious win of his cycling career as he took the 14th stage of the Giro d'Italia Saturday which finished on the feared Monte Zoncolan climb.
Three-time Tour de France champion Alberto Contador claimed the leader's pink jersey at the Giro d'Italia after winning the ninth stage on Sunday.
A cycling journalist discusses safety concerns and tribute rides for Wouter Weylandt, who died on the Giro d'Italia.
Cycling's world governing body is to appeal to sport's highest court against the Spanish federation's decision to acquit three-time Tour de France champion Alberto Contador of a doping charge.
When is a suspension not a suspension? When it is issued in Spain, against a high-profile cyclist. On Tuesday, members of the discipline committee of the Spanish Cycling Federation (RFEC) declared Alberto Contador innocent of doping charges. The defending Tour de France champion had been suspended three weeks earlier for a positive drug test during last year's Tour. Contador's urine showed traces of clenbuterol, a result he attributed to a contaminated steak eaten during the race. It was ruled, at the time, that even though he may not have knowingly ingested the substance, Contador was responsible for its presence in his body.
Three-time Tour de France winner Alberto Contador has been cleared of a doping charge by Spain's cycling federation, the federation president and Contador's press office said Tuesday.
Alberto Contador has been banned for one-year by the Spanish cycling federation (RFEC) after testing positive for the banned anabolic agent clenbuterol on his way to winning last year's Tour de France.
Three-time Tour de France champion Alberto Contador faces a disciplinary hearing into alleged doping after cycling's ruling body asked his Spanish federation to open a case against him.
Three-time Tour de France champ Alberto Contador talks about testing positive for a banned steroid.
Reigning Tour de France champion Alberto Contador has rejected the findings of a positive dope test taken while the cyclist was competing in this year's race, blaming it on bad meat.
Until he lost his appeals and changed his tune, Floyd Landis pioneered the Jack Daniels defense. Another athlete, a former American track and field sprinter, insisted that his elevated levels of testosterone were the result of repeated intercourse, and copious amounts of beer, on the eve of the test.
Three-time Tour de France winner Alberto Contador will race for the former team of this year's main rival Andy Schleck for the next two seasons.
Alberto Contador will ride for a new team when he seeks his fourth Tour de France title next year, after deciding not to renew his contract with Astana.
Alberto Contador was crowned Tour de France champion for the third time on Sunday as Mark Cavendish won the final stage of cycling's premier event, which was delayed after seven-time winner Lance Armstrong's team were ordered to change their jerseys.
Alberto Contador will take a 39-second lead into the final stage of the Tour de France after fighting off a determined challenge from Andy Schleck in Saturday's deciding time trial stage.
Andy Schleck and Alberto Contador crossed the line together at the end of the arduous 17th stage of the Tour de France, which finished at the top of the giant Col de Tourmalet, meaning defending champion Contador retains his slender eight-second advantage over his rival.
Andy Schleck drew a line under his row with leader Alberto Contador after France's Pierrick Fedrigo fought off a challenge from Lance Armstrong to win stage 16 of the Tour de France.
Defending champion Alberto Contador has issued an apology after he took advantage of his rival Andy Schleck's mechanical failure to seize the yellow jersey in the Tour de France.
France's Christophe Riblon won the 14th stage of the Tour de France as Andy Schleck maintained his 31-second advantage over Alberto Contador in the battle for the race leader's yellow jersey.
Alberto Contador finished second on the 12th stage of the Tour de France to trim 10 seconds off the lead of yellow jersey leader Andy Schleck of Luxembourg.
Lance Armstrong's bid for an eighth win in the Tour de France came to a sorry end on a dramatic eighth stage of the Tour de France won by Andy Schleck of Luxembourg.
Tour de France champion Alberto Contador secured overall victory in the Paris-Nice stage race on Sunday, as Spanish riders filled the top three places.
Cervelo's Xavier Tondo won the toughest stage of this year's Paris-Nice cycling classic as Alejandro Valverde finished second to ratchet up the pressure on race leader and their fellow Spaniard Alberto Contador.
Tour de France winner Alberto Contador suffered a heavy crash in the opening stage of the Paris-Nice race in France -- the first major European contest of the 2010 cycling season.
Alberto Contador's immediate future has finally been sorted out after his Astana team were finally granted their ProTour licence on Thursday.
Tour de France champion Alberto Contador looks set to stay with Astana next year after reaching a preliminary agreement with the Kazakh-based squad.
Lance Armstrong and Alberto Contador will renew their fierce rivalry on a 2010 Tour de France route that features a fearsome stretch in the Pyrenees which is likely to decide the outcome of the 97th edition of cycling's most famous race.
Tour de France champion Alberto Contador will stay with Astana for the 2010 season, the Kazakh-funded team announced on Saturday night.
Lance Armstrong has hit back at Tour de France winner Alberto Contador by describing the Spaniard's latest criticism of him as "drivel" on his Twitter feed.
Cycling great Lance Armstrong is in a war of words with Tour de France winner Alberto Contador. CNN's Josh Levs reports.
Tour de France winner Alberto Contador has launched a stinging attack on Astana teammate Lance Armstrong after returning as a hero to his native town of Pinto near Madrid.
What we learned from the 96th Tour de France:
Alberto Contador has been crowned Tour de France champion for the second time in three years, as Mark Cavendish won his sixth stage of this year's race with victory in the 21st and final stage, finishing in the center of Paris.
Alberto Contador is on the verge of winning his second Tour de France in three years after finishing fourth to fellow-Spaniard Juan Manuel Garate in the arduous 20th and penultimate 167km stage to the top of Mont Ventoux.
Seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong has announced that he will race for a new U.S.-based team next year.
LE GRAND BORNAND, France -- Worst kept secret at this Tour de France: Astana general manager Johan Bruyneel will announce tomorrow that he intends to start a new team next year, backed by American sponsorship and led by Lance Armstrong.
Alberto Contador has moved closer to his second Tour de France victory in three years after finishing second to Luxembourg's Frank Schleck in the gruelling 169.5km 17th stage of the race from Bourg-Saint-Maurice to Le Grand-Bornand.
SAINT MAURICE, France -- Okay, people, you've had a couple days to come to terms with the cycling's New World Order. How's the grieving process going? Coping okay? Did we have a bit of a sulk on Sunday? For a lot of yellow-braceleted faithful, that day marked the death of illusions and wishful thinking; the moment Alberto Contador ("Contador le Matador" as L'Equipe dubbed him) rode into yellow. And he did in a voracious, merciless, effortless style that: 1) evoked a young Lance Armstrong; and 2) suggested very strongly that he'll be sporting the maillot jaune all the way to Paris.
Alberto Contador maintained his 97-second lead over Astana teammate Lance Armstrong in the Tour de France as Mikel Astarloza claimed his first stage victory on Tuesday.
Alberto Contador is confident he has the backing of Astana teammate Lance Armstrong in his quest to retain the yellow jersey until the end of the Tour de France.
Alberto Contador destroyed his rivals in the first Alpine stage of the Tour de France, taking over the yellow jersey with an impressive victory in the 207.5km 15th stage from Pontarlier to Verbier.
Astana cyclist Levi Leipheimer talks to CNN about his chances of winning Tour de France before he crashes out.
Well, that was a trifle anticlimactic, no?
Defending Tour de France champion Carlos Sastre has exclusively told CNN that he does not care what happens in the alleged dispute between rivals Lance Armstrong and Alberto Contador at Astana -- and is only concentrating on retaining his title.
Recall, if you will, Bernard Hinault's terse message to Lance Armstrong five years ago, after the Texan drained much of the suspense from the 2004 Tour de France by winning his third straight alpine stage. "No gifts," declaimed the Badger. Implicit in those words: a pro bike race is a knife fight, not a bridal shower. There is no place in it for charity or sentimentality or mercy. No gifts. Lance-o-philes loved it so much they put it on a T-shirt.
Seven-time champion Lance Armstrong was denied the yellow jersey again as unknown home rider Brice Feillu won a dramatic seventh stage of the Tour de France.
Alberto Contador is a 26-year-old professional bike racer from Spain who in two seasons has won the Tours of France, Italy and his homeland. It's a feat matched by only four other riders in history, and by last fall Contador's performances had depleted the European press of its supply of superlatives. Then, in March, wearing the yellow leader's jersey one week into the Paris-Nice stage race, he did what even the finest racers are occasionally known to do, but Contador since his rise to prominence had not yet done. During a mountain stage, he cracked.
The most-eagerly anticipated Tour de France in recent history begins with a testing individual time-trial in Monaco on July 4 and fittingly, on U.S. Independence Day, an American will take center stage in cycling's greatest race.
Alberto Contador scored an emphatic victory in the final 24 kilometer time trial to wrap up overall honors in the Tour of Basque Country on Saturday.
Swiss Michael Albasini continued Team Columbia's impressive start to the cycling season with victory in stage four of the Tour of the Basque Country on Thursday.
American Levi Leipheimer continues to lead the Tour of Castilla and Leon from Astana team-mate Alberto Contador following the mountainous 157km third stage to the San Isidro ski station.
Caisse d'Epargne rider Luis Leon Sanchez repelled a host of challenges to win Paris-Nice after a thrilling 119km eighth and final stage of the race, ending on the famous Promenade des Anglais on the French Riviera.
Alberto Contador wrested the overall lead in the Paris-Nice cycle race on Friday with a commanding victory on the testing sixth stage.
Christian Vandevelde of the United States claimed Wednesday's fourth stage of the Paris-Nice while Astana's Alberto Contador showed just why he is the race favorite in the early season classic.
Spain's Alberto Contador triumphed in the opening stage of the Paris-Nice cycling race on Sunday as he opened his bid to repeat his 2007 title success.
Alberto Contador will not defend his Giro d'Italia crown and instead focus on winning the Tour de France for the second time, the Spaniard revealed on Tuesday.
Alberto Contador joined an elite group of cycling greats who have claimed all three major tours as he wrapped up victory in the Tour of Spain on Sunday.
Alberto Contador maintained his dominance of the Tour of Spain on Sunday by winning his second successive mountain stage to stretch his overall lead over Astana teammate Levi Leipheimer.
Italian Alessandro Ballan assumed leadership of the Tour of Spain with a brave lone victory on the seventh stage to Andorra on Saturday.
Emanuele Sella recorded his third mountain stage of this year's Giro d'Italia on Saturday, and Alberto Contador held onto his slim overall lead for a sixth day.
Alberto Contador held on to the pink jersey by his fingertips on a dramatic 19th stage of the Giro d'italia as he withstood determined challenges from reigning champion Danilo Di Luca and Riccardo Ricco.
Franco Pellizotti won a gruelling mountain time trial at the Giro d'Italia on Monday as Spain's Alberto Contador tightened his grip on the race leader's pink jersey.
Tour de France champion Alberto Contador and his Astana team are facing a hasty scramble to compete in the Giro d'Italia after receiving a late invitation to take part in a race from which they were originally barred.
Tour de France champion Alberto Contador sealed victory in the Tour of Basque Country by winning the sixth and final stage, an individual time trial.
Kim Kirchen of Luxembourg won the second stage and Alberto Contador kept the overall lead of the Tour of Basque Country race on Tuesday.
Spain's Alberto Contador took the 137-kilometer opening stage of the Tour of the Basque Country around the northern town of Legazpia on Monday.
A Spanish court ordered the reopening of Operation Puerto, a widespread doping probe that has implicated some of cycling's biggest stars.
Reigning Tour de France champion Alberto Contador will be unable to defend his title after organizers excluded his new Astana team from competing in cycling's most prestigious race.
For three weeks they admired his matador's daring, his dark good looks and his abundant charisma. But as Spain's precocious Alberto Contador stepped onto the podium and the strains of La Marcha Real filled the Champs-��lys�es, cycling fans had one overwhelming thought: Please, God, let this kid be clean.
What's the future of cycling?
ANGOULEME, France -- This seamy, sordid Elmore Leonard-type Tour will end, it seems, with a chapter by John LeCarre. Alternately grand and grotesque, this race was partially redeemed Saturday by some heart-stopping drama in the brandy-making capital of the world.
The leaders of the Tour de France were playing chicken in the final climb of stage 14 on Sunday when they were briefly overtaken by ... a chicken. To the Borat impersonator in a lime singlet who ran alongside the cyclists during stage 8, waving the flag of Kazakhstan, and the guy who adorned his bike with gigantic racks of deer antlers in stage 10, add the fellow in the yellow-feathered costume to the list of amusing spectators at this, the most unpredictable Tour in memory.
Loudenvielle -- The Human Phoenix, Alexandre Vinkourov, whose serial resurrections have become a subplot in this Tour, got over the parcours in five hours, 34 minutes and 28 seconds today (almost exactly half as long as it took me to ride this stage one week ago, a misadventure that I will share with you tomorrow). The two guys locked in mortal combat over who will win this three-week beast -- Rabobank's Michael Rasmussen and Discovery Channel's thrilling young talent, Alberto Contador -- powered down the Col de Peyrosourde together, crossing the line 5 � minutes after Vino.
ALBI, France -- I was among the score or so of reporters skulking around the lobby of the Novotel in Montpellier on Friday, hoping extract a quote from embattled race leader Michael Rasmussen of Rabobank. (The crafty Dane gave us the dodge; officials of the Danish Cycling Union, apparently, can relate). Sharing the hotel with the Rabos was Team Astana. While we loitered on the lookout for Rasmussen, Alexandre Vinokourov emerged from the dining room. With a total of 30 stitches in his knees, he made his way across the lobby with the stiff-legged gait of a man with advanced arthritis. It was clear that the podium was beyond his reach.
Spain's Alberto Contador won a grueling eighth stage of the Tour of Switzerland around Ambri on Saturday with compatriot Koldo Gil preserving his overall lead.
Spain's Alejandro Valverde, of the Caisse d'Epargne/Iles Baleares team, won a sprint finish to claim the fourth stage of the Tour of Romandie over 127km around Sion on Saturday.
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salmon fillets skin-side-down on a foil-lined baking sheet. Drizzle
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Bake at 400 degrees for 14-16 minutes, or until fish flakes easily with a fork. Broil high for 2 minutes to brown coating.
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Once salmon fillets are done, remove from pan with a spatula, allowing skin to stick to the foil.
Divide pasta among four plates; top each with a salmon fillet and roasted red pepper salsa.
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- Fertility foods
- Are women today having a more difficult time getting pregnant?
- What should women eat to boost fertility?
- What about fish?
- Are processed foods linked to infertility?
- Why is weight gain linked to infertility?
- What part do supplements play in fertility?
- What environmental toxins interfere with hormones?
Hope to get pregnant now or someday? The foods you choose—and avoid—can help ensure that all systems are go when you're ready. Get the latest holistic wisdom in this Q&A with Victoria Maizes, MD, author of Be Fruitful: The Essential Guide to Maximizing Fertility and Giving Birth to a Healthy Child (Scribner, 2013).
Are processed foods linked to infertility?
DL: Are processed foods linked to infertility?
VM: Processed foods are filled with exactly the wrong kinds of carbohydrates and fats. The carbs are high on the glycemic index, which bumps up blood sugar, which in turn spikes insulin. Elevated insulin reduces a circulating protein called sex hormone–binding globulin (SHBG). SHBG's task is just what its name implies: It binds estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone so that only small amounts circulate in the blood in the free or active form. Of all these sex hormones, SHBG has a preference for binding testosterone; so less SHBG means more unbound testosterone in the bloodstream, altering the overall hormonal balance to be more male dominant, which in turn can make it harder to get pregnant.
Many processed foods also contain trans fat, which raises the body's inflammation levels—a fertility zapper—and increases insulin resistance, which leads the pancreas to secrete more insulin.
Avoid soda, too. In Harvard's Nurses Health Study II, soda intake—including caffeinated, noncaffeinated, diet, and sugary versions—correlated to reduced fertility.


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Have you read this?
For me, it's everything, his whole pre-stance windup, knees stuck together, running-swing, softball style that really grates. The guy runs around the field looking like a little girl trying to keep from peeing her pants. Good god man, are you trapping your cock between your legs? And lose that ridiculous turtleneck Mr. Bentley. It's all just ugly, no matter the result.
As if all of the softball imitation isn't bad enough, the guy requested that his FIRST name be put on his jersey. Not since Vida Blue fulfilled Charlie Finley's request that his players be eccentric has a player adorned himself with such a selfish proclamation.
I don't blame any of these guys for wanting to "knock him out." I don't even know him and I'd be one of the first to line up. There are few professional athletes upon whom the average American sports fan can realistically expect to whoop ass. Ichiro is one. I'd knock that 150 pound midget into the dirt if given a legal chance.
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She weighed approximately 18 pounds at birth and grew to a height of 7 feet 11 inches! While on tour overseas, she met and eventually married Martin Van Burren Bates, known as the "Kentucky Giant".
The Anna Swan Museum, housed at the Tatamagouche Cremery Square, features authentically proportioned replicas of both Swan and Bates and holds a variety of personal items including photographs, a door from their custom built house, and other unique items of interest.
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It appears the Jefferson County Commission is one step closer to reaching a deal with sewer creditors.
Commission President, David Carrington, announced a meeting Thursday, October 31 at 3:00 PM at the Commission chambers.
During that meeting the Commission will consider a modified financing plan which is said to incorporate the agreements the Commission has reached "in principal" with representatives of the major sewer creditor groups.
Carrington wrote, "Our fellow Commissioners have been steadfast throughout, and for that we are grateful. Without question, more work remains to get the County out of bankruptcy by the end of the year, including confirmation of our plan and the successful placement of the new sewer warrants. The agreement is subject to documentation and bankruptcy court approval."
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Authorities investigating the deadly bombings at the Boston Marathon have recovered a piece of circuit board that they believe was part of one of the explosive devices, and also found the lid of a pressure cooker that apparently was catapulted onto the roof of a nearby building.
A law enforcement official briefed on the investigation confirmed to The Associated Press on Wednesday that authorities have recovered what they believe are some of the pieces of the explosive devices. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because this person was not authorized to publicly discuss evidence in the ongoing investigation.
A person close to the investigation previously told AP the bombs consisted of explosives put in 1.6-gallon pressure cookers, one with shards of metal and ball bearings, the other with nails.
The trauma surgery chief at Boston Medical Center says most of the injuries his hospital treated after the marathon bombings were to the lower extremities.
Dr. Peter Burke says the hospital treated 23 people following the blasts, and 19 remained there on Wednesday morning. He says two patients, including a 5-year-old child, remain critical, but says all the patients are making progress and are expected to survive.
Dozens of others have been released from hospitals around Boston.
Massachusetts General Hospital says all but 12 of the 31 people sent there have been released. Eight are critical.
Beth Israel still has 13 of the 24 people sent there. Boston Children's has three remaining of its original 10 patients; and Tufts Medical Center has released half of its 14 bombing patients.
The father of one of the three people who died in the Boston Marathon bombings was at first told that his daughter had survived, but was in surgery and could lose a leg.
When William Campbell arrived at Massachusetts General Hospital, however, he learned that his daughter, 29-year-old Krystle Campbell, had died.
Krystle's grandmother, Lillian Campbell, told multiple media outlets that her granddaughter and a friend were together at the marathon and lay side by side on the ground after the bombs went off.
Somewhere on the way to the hospital, their names got mixed up.
Lillian Campbell says her son was "devastated" when he found out the truth and almost passed out.
Krystle Campbell was a restaurant manager who grew up in Medford but had moved to Arlington.
FIFA President Sepp Blatter has written to the mayor of Boston expressing "distress at the cruel bombings" at the city's marathon.
Blatter wrote to Thomas M. Menino condemning the "cowardly actions, which are not only an attack on the citizens of Boston, but also on sport itself and its ethics of discipline, respect and fair play."
FIFA published excerpts of the letter -- also sent to Thomas Grilk, the executive director of the Boston Athletic Commission -- on its website Wednesday.
Two bombs exploded near the finish line of Monday's race, killing three people and wounding more than 170.
Blatter wrote that "my immediate thoughts and sympathies go out to the victims and their families."
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To those of you who have been living under a rock recently, the so-called "Russell Wilson Rule" is a small loophole in the NCAA transfer rules that says that a student athlete who has completed his Bachelor's degree and still has one or more years of eligibility remaining can leave his current Div 1 insitution and can transfer to another Div 1 institution for graduate school on an athletic scholarship and can play without having to sit out a year. This is provided he enrolls in a graduate program that is not offered at his original school. To my knowledge this is the only situation where a student athlete can transfer to another Div 1 school without having to sit out a year. (This of course primarily applies to Men's FB and BB. I'm not sure how it applies to the non-revenue sports). Maryland has recently been the loser (Danny Obrien) and the winner (Logan Aronholt) under this rule. Apparently this rule has engendered some controversy and I think it would be something worth discussing.
At first glance this rule seems to me to be a good one. If you have an athlete who truly is a "student-athlete" and finishes his degree ahead of schedule, he can be rewarded for his hard work with an opportunity to get graduate school paid for as well. Logan Aronholt is a perfect example of this. He really has no NBA prospects. He is an excellent student and wants to study kinesiology, which is a subject that his previous school, Albany, doesn't offer. Win-win for all concerned (except maybe the Albany basketball team). Now Danny Obrien's situation is a little more muddled. He obviously does have pro aspirations, and you could say his move was more fueled by a desire to improve his draft prospects rather than a desire to study whatever it is he'll be studying. Nonetheless I have no hard feelings toward Danny, and he DID graduate early and since we all know that the NCAA is all about education and nothing else, it seems a nice reward.
In the article I linked above some people complain about possible abuses. Apparently some guy named Jeremiah Masioli transferred from Oregon to Ole Miss just in time to avoid a suspension at Oregon. The SEC has banned such transfers, supposedly because of the risk of abuse, but I think they're afraid that a transfer might infect their other palyers, causing them to actually go to class or something (the horror). My opinion is that any policy can be abused in some way. Lord knows the NCAA knows about that. It's nice to see even a few players get some power for a change. Any thoughts?


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The third week will allow students to re-take the exam.
They hope it will help more students make the grade. "We want to make sure parents don't fall back on that, to insist their children do go to summer school because we would hate for misinformation to be out there and their children be held back when they could have just gone to summer school," says JC Cunningham, a school employee and member of the Citizens Action Group.
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I picked up this bad boy at the outlet mall today. I always need to stop by lids when I'm at the mall, even though it usually ends in failure. Las Vegas is horrible for Padres merch. I understand the Padres aren't as popular as the doggers or yankees, but there is really slim pickings for padres stuff.
Anyways, this is a "snapback" hat. Apparently hats with snaps on them are having some sort of revival. I don't get it. I much prefer the flex-fit for aesthetics an adjustable hat. For usability, I prefer Velcro over the snaps as you don't have to worry about it wearing down. So yeah, I'm not a fan of the snaps. I'm also not a fan of white. It gets dirty too quickly. Especially with a huge white panel right on the forehead. It's gonna get some sweat marks real quick. So, all those negatives aside I bought it anyways because the price was right. 10 bucks. Can't beat that with a stick.
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In my opinion we stand at a challenging point in time, a period in which the new rules of the last century are being superseded by the rules of the new one. We have 3,700 governmental entities in the state of Ohio, give or take a few. For political subdivisions, or businesses like mine, there are two new realities: (1) we will not have the resources to conduct business as we have in the past; (2) we will need to abandon outdated practices and devise more effective ones. Neither reality will be easy. The next several years will require hard choices and unpopular decisions that will test our mettle and challenge our ingenuity.


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You may be asking yourself, "What in the world is a Gump?" Well I'm glad you asked. A Gump is a newly coined term referring to the overzealous Bama fan. The name derives from the Universities most prestigious alumnus, Forrest Gump. You may also know the term Bammer. Well thanks to people like the fine folks over at Tower of Bammer and if I may say so...ME, we have taken back the name Bammer and it has been replaced with Gump.
Now, I'm not 100% sure who coined the name Gump or even when it was first used. I first saw it during the 2010 season on the Twitter and it has been picking up traction over the last couple of years.
Back to the original question: Are You A Gump? Before we dig into visual examples let me ask you a few questions.
1. Right now (as in May 1st 4 months before the season starts) not including license plate tags, do you have more than two Alabama decals on your trunk? Do you have more than 4 Alabama decals on your entire car? Flags? Front license plate tag with a matching custom license plate? Is your car crimson?
2. For dudes, how many hounds tooth items do you own?
3. Are your animals and/or children named after the Bear or any other famous Alabama heroes? (My dog is named Bear but because he looked like a Bear as a pup...just sayin)
4. During non Bama games, how many Alabama shirts or gear do you wear at one time?
5. Is 'Yea Alabama' your ring tone? God forbid your door bell?
6. Does your twitter handle signify you are a Bama fan?
7. Would you marry an Auburn fan? How would you react if your child became an Auburn fan?
8. Are you capable of criticizing Saban for anything, ever?
9. Would you cry if you met Coach Saban?
10. Do you ask for retweets on twitter from current or ex Alabama players?
11. Do you honestly believe ALL Bama players drafted in the NFL will end up Pro-Bowlers?
12. Do you honestly believe every Bama player (regardless of actual ability) should be or will be drafted?
13. Do you get entirely too defensive over satire of your team?
Ok now for some visual representation Let's start with a subtle but excellent example:
Dude on the left, not the girl on the right.
You may remember these fine people (above) as the Gumps who RAN 100 yards WITH A BABY just to be the first in line to see Saban. Watch the gumpness below.
Yes those are people laughing at them. You should too.
Now this fine gentleman encompasses everything a gump should be. Nipple piercing? CHECK. Possible jean shorts? CHECK. Unkempt beard with what looks like a tattered Bama hat turned around backwards? HELL YEAH CHECK. Tattoo of all Bama Championships with the weird Big Al on his beer belly? CHECK indeed.
To be sure, not all Gumps are the same. Many are just hard working Alabama fans who have let their love of the Crimson Tide overwhelm their lives. Some though have taken their fandom to a whole new level and have become SUPER Gumps. Beware these Gumps for they will do more harm than good.
A "douche Gump". This is a rare but growing in number breed of Gumps. Typically their daily lives aren't gumpesque but their true colors come out whilst drinking and or after Bama wins.
And who could forget the "KING Gump". He is the Gump by which all other Gumps are measured. Seriously this guy can DIAF.
Finally, if you are a Gump or feel yourself becoming a Gump be careful. It's OK to venture into Gumpland every once in a while, like after Bama wins a National Title. But never EVER EVER go full Gump. That's something you never come back from. Roll Tide.


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State investigators will look into an early morning shooting in Buncombe County after a deputy fired his gun Monday.
The deputy was responding to a domestic disturbance call along Laurel Loop Road in Fairview about 2:50 a.m. when he was told the suspect had a gun at the residence, according to Natalie Bailey, spokesperson for the Buncombe County Sheriff's Office.
Bailey said while the deputy was walking toward the home he heard a gun go off then the suspect began driving towards him "aggressively."
The deputy ordered the man to stop but he didn't, and as he continued toward him, the deputy shot the man, according to Bailey.
The man was wounded and taken to Mission Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, Bailey said.
Bailey said Garrett Dale Hatch, 31, of Fletcher, was charged with one count of driving while impaired and one count of assault with a deadly weapon on a government official. He was released from the hospital then taken to the Buncombe County Detention Center where he was being held on $50,000 bond, Bailey said.
The State Bureau of Investigation was called in to investigate the case and the deputy who was involved was placed on administrative leave with pay pending the SBI's findings, which Bailey said was standard protocol.
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Hello everyone, I'm a new trad climber out of Greenville, sc. I mainly climb at rumbling bald, cedar rock and crowders and am looking at getting more into trad climbing. So far I have BD stoppers 4-13 and 3 cams, .5,.75 and 1. I was wondering whAt else I should look into getting. I will probably be climbing routes like fruit loops at the bald and the nose at looking glass, I do have experience with multi pitch. So what pieces of gear that I don't have could be useful and should I think about getting? Any advice welcome! Thanks in advance!
Tricams, pink, red, blue, and brown. I place them all the time.
Small to med cams...masters, aliens something like that up to orange or red. then double up on any of that stuff including 0.5-2 Camalots. Tricams are ok, but I'd rather have the cams in the same sizes 1st.
The nuts aren't as important at those places until you start getting into the 5.11's and harder. There are only a few routes that require nuts. I would agree with having a rack of the tricams from the small black all the way to blue or navy. They are cheap and work really well in eyebrows. You are missing a lot of the smaller finger sized cams. Consider the metolius master cams from orange #3 to purple #0 or equivalent C3s and C4s (.4 to 0). Also a #2 and a #3 C4 would help, the #2 being more improtant. The tricams are really nice on the south side of Looking Glass for building belays. Most other faces at LG like the Nose or North Face all have bolted belays. The Bald and Cedar have all bolted belays. At those two places the finger sized pieces are really important.
Good advice already. I did a butt load of NC trad climbing with the following rack: - Metolius TCUs (blue, yellow, orange) - Metolius 4cu (red) - Camalots (purple, green, red, yellow) - Stoppers (4-13) - Tricams (pink, red, blue, brown) - Nut tool The black tricam didn't exist then, but if it had I'm sure it would have been useful. Every once in a while I wished I had a blue (#3) Camalot, but not often. You're on your way to the rack I started with. It's possible to climb a lot in NC w/ that rack, but don't forget about shoulder slings, loose biners, etc.
I can usually get by with this:
If your in Greenville i suggest you get in touch with Tony Jones (ClimbBlueRidge), Buddy Price, or Frost (sunrift) and tag along for a day or two with them and see what those guys have on their rack. Otherwise given advice is great. Have fun out there and be safe.
Whatever you decide to rack up with, don't leave the TCUs behind!


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Although the cell-phone reception was a little dicey and Mike Iupati had a nice-sounding celebration going on behind him, he took a few minutes to chat with me this evening.
When the 49ers scooped up Iupati with the 17th pick, I thought back to the Senior Bowl, where I saw Mike Singletary camped out in front of the OL drills one day. He appeared to take serious interest in the Idaho guard, watching him even move between drills.
I asked Iupati if he was nervous wondering where he'd end up given that he was sliding a tad.
"No, because I knew I was going between eight to 27," he told PFW. "I was nervous, but I knew it was going to happen eventually. And it did."
Eight was the Raiders, and Iupati said he heard the chatter that we all did: that Oakland really liked him. He also knew there was no way he'd get past the Cowboys at 27, seeing as how they were drooling when Iupati weighed in at the Senior Bowl, showing off his chiseled physique.
Iupati said he's not sure of his new team's plans for him but guessed he'd end up inside.
"No, not yet, because they took Anthony Davis," he said, "so I think they might put me at guard."
It makes sense. He can be the left guard, and with Davis at right tackle, the 49ers can get back to power football and improve the talent up front.
In the end, though, Iupati went to a place tyhat makes sense, right in the middle of where he expected. The Steelers, picking one slot later, reportedly were crushed he was gone after thinking they might get him. Iupati thinks it all worked out for the best in the end, fairly close to Idaho, on the West Coast near where he was raised, and only a, oh, 19-hour flight back to American Samoa, where he's from originally.
Iupati talked to a "bunch" of coaches who passed the phone around when they called him to let him know he was their pick, but he thought back to Singletary, who spent time talking to Iupati before the draft.
"I thought they might like me," he said.
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Our use case seemed pretty straightforward. When users register on the site they select terms from a taxonomy list based on a field in their profile2 profile. As content is added to the site the same taxonomy is used to categorize content. We wanted a view that would let users see any content that matched any of their taxonomy term selections.
I'm on the drupal4lib mailing list and want to thank all those who responded, specifically Kelly Lucas aka krlucas who is quoted below
Start with a base View that shows Users (not Content).
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3) Create a relationship from the field containing the select terms on the
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You should now be able to add the relevant node fields to the View.
What didn't work: So while this seemed incredibly straightforward getting this many-to-many relationship to work caused me endless grief. I tried views global filter thinking that might be a good solution – according to their documentation any fields pulled from the profile are used to override the values. Using the multiselect widget this simply failed all over the place – values didn't save at all, weirdness reigned, and general misery ensued.*
Also in the "fail" category – making a view based on the content table and the taxonomy table. Either of these might have worked with a few more relationships, however at this point I think we're stocked up.
Thanks to all involved who helped on this – Cary Gordon, Brazos**, and of course Kelly Lucas
*fwiw we read the entire issue queue and documentation, however this statement really hurt Rik's feelings. Would someone please hug him down under?
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Young's London Gold (Kew Gold) - Wells & Young's Ltd
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Ratings: 38 | Reviews: 24 | Display Reviews Only:
3/5 rDev -14.3%
03-16-2014 15:18:35 | More by Fettpopps
United Kingdom (England)
3.25/5 rDev -7.1%
11-30-2013 21:22:55 | More by EmperorBevis
United Kingdom (England)
3.25/5 rDev -7.1%
11-03-2013 17:47:08 | More by vinicole
Croatia (Hrvatska)
2.75/5 rDev -21.4%
08-14-2013 12:24:47 | More by hansavijaticar
New York
3.53/5 rDev +0.9%
A_Pours a clear gold with a tight white cap which fades a bit
S_Toasted bread with a background of mild bitterness
T_Like its sibling the special the taste differs from the aroma as you get more of a bitter hop sensation over the malt qualities. Aftertaste is nicely floral and mildly sweet.
M_Lighter in body with a nice pleasing carbonation. Dry finish.
O_ Another well done beer. I think I would go Special over this but both are good
08-05-2013 12:51:27 | More by sleazo
2.5/5 rDev -28.6%
07-08-2013 22:43:12 | More by bvlaminck
United Kingdom (England)
3.39/5 rDev -3.1%
A 500ml bottle with a BB of June 2013. ABV is stated as 4.8%. Picked up from a supermarket a while back and stored in my garage. I reckon this was rebranded in time for the 2012 Olympics (it was previously known as Kew Gold). The label mentions that it is bottle conditioned.
Poured into a straight pint glass. A bright golden-yellow colour with slight haze and medium carbonation. Forms a large head of white foam that lasts for a few minutes before disappearing. Aroma of grainy malt with hints of earthy yeast, grass and faint stewed hops. Unexciting but balanced.
Tastes of light, grainy malt with a dry finish. Notes of grain, earthy yeast, mild grass, faint stewed hops and a hint of cardboard in the background. Well-attenuated, with a subtle bitterness upon swallowing. Mouthfeel is smooth, dry and tingly, with pleasant carbonation and decent body. Aftertaste of mild earthy yeast and faint grain.
A rather bland ale, though not unpleasant. It looks OK, while the aroma and flavour are a balanced blend of earthy yeast, grass and barley. Body is light but satisfying. Drinkable, if a tad forgettable. Probably better on cask - worth trying if you stumble across it.
05-28-2013 22:31:59 | More by jazzyjeff13
3/5 rDev -14.3%
05-21-2013 20:55:31 | More by pin
3/5 rDev -14.3%
03-19-2013 16:51:20 | More by innominat
4/5 rDev +14.3%
03-14-2013 15:26:06 | More by diverite
United Kingdom (England)
3/5 rDev -14.3%
09-06-2012 20:14:19 | More by Pelicanrocks
3.25/5 rDev -7.1%
08-19-2012 22:54:21 | More by Wantedandlisted
4.5/5 rDev +28.6%
08-03-2012 17:00:07 | More by MEP
3.25/5 rDev -7.1%
07-22-2012 07:08:07 | More by BlackDogs
4/5 rDev +14.3%
05-12-2012 21:34:44 | More by Richie71
Ontario (Canada)
4/5 rDev +14.3%
11-30-2011 20:44:17 | More by kelvarnsen
2.6/5 rDev -25.7%
Golden color, slightly veiled. Almost no foam, though a decent carbonation.
In the smell a bit of hop, light, and some maltiness, light too. Earthly hop, some tea, again, quite light.
Same notes in the taste, light earthly hop, and a light orange marmelade.
Malty aftertaste, with a bit of backgorund sweetness.
07-03-2011 11:42:52 | More by stcules
3/5 rDev -14.3%
Handpump half-pint at the Audley in Mayfair.
A: CLear gold body (fittingly enough) under a thin layer of coarse white foam. Mediocre retention, spotty lace. Not great.
S: A little muted, but not bad: grassy hops, pale bready malt. SImple.
T: Generic malt sweetness, followed by some light apricot, and finally some faint bitterness. Refreshing enough, but boring.
M: Light body, low carbonation. Average.
O: This struck me as the quintessentially boring, bland Bitter. Nothing terrible, but literally nothing worth remembering. It won't kill you to order a pint, but the odds are you can find something much more interesting.
06-21-2011 01:13:42 | More by woosterbill
3.33/5 rDev -4.9%
Beer bottle (50 cl., ABV=4.8), tasted in 2011.
Appearance : golden color with a thin white head.
Smell : floral hop notes aromas.
Taste and mouthfeel : caramel flovours, with a mild bitternes in finish.
Drinkability : an average beer in the style English bitter.
04-24-2011 19:29:25 | More by thierrynantes
3.93/5 rDev +12.3%
Pours light golden with large, firm and foamy head that forms beautiful lace on the sides of the glass. Aroma is vague and sweetish pale malt, floral hops.
Taste is crisp fruity bitterness, light malt with notes of honey in the finish. Mouthfeel is light/medium with lots of carbonation.
Drinkability is excellent. Can not get enough if this beer.
01-30-2011 17:14:05 | More by atis
United Kingdom (England)
4.1/5 rDev +17.1%
Enjoyed in a 300 year old stone built pub with a roaring fire , looking out of the window at a 13th century church and all's well with the world.
Glorious golden hue, not as pale as some golden beers. About a quarter to half an inch thick tight head which remained almost to the lat mouthful.Smell was promising, cask ales don't have a lot of aroma because of low carbonation. No loss because arome is stolen from the body of the beer anyway.
Taste was a little grainy, bitterish but nicely balanced with a lovely clean smack of malt right down rhe middle.Almost like eating a spoonful out of the bag. This taste was still with me as I drove home!
Mouthfeel pretty good for a 4% bitter , not thin in any way but not as full as you get with stronger beers.
Drinkability-up there with the best. Had I not had the car keys I would have asked for a few more!
NOTE!!! The cask version is 4.0% ABV, the bottles are apparently 4.8%. Not quite the same beer.
01-01-2011 18:42:22 | More by marquis
New York
3.68/5 rDev +5.1%
This was the second beer I had when I arrived in London last week, which I ordered with a large fish and chips around 12 noon after flying on the red eye. I'm not sure how much I really like the english cask ales but for sentimental reasons and because I was in england it was just about perfect.
Dark and cloudy color with very little carbonation. More like bubbles from the hand pulling. A malty aroma and a malty flavor, but not quite as malty as some. This beer is somewhat unbalanced and not the most refreshing beverage I had but definitely worth getting. It goes great with fish and chips and just before a long nap.
09-16-2010 18:52:34 | More by david18
2.98/5 rDev -14.9%
An amber copper toned beer with an off-white head and a few laces.
The smell is malty, bread and grains, some oranges and green apples.
Nearly no sweetness, a sharp acidity like from rhubarbs, a chemical seedy bitterness.
Small carbonation, a bit watery.
It started nicely but turned out to be rather flat and watery.
On-tap at The Shakespears Head at Carnaby Street, Soho.
07-29-2010 15:00:47 | More by rarbring
2.48/5 rDev -29.1%
A study in bland real ales. Wow, that was boring. Served with a small to medium cream colored head and lots of lace. Color is a very clear amber. Aroma is slight malt, grain and a hint of hop. Very bland. perfect beer to sip while pondering existential questions. Body and carbonation are ok. Vague alcohol finish.
01-15-2010 22:40:57 | More by drpimento
United Kingdom (England)
3.15/5 rDev -10%
Bottle conditioned, so poured slowly into a vase shaped pint glass, two and a half months before its BBD. What little sediment there was stayed within the bottle.
Golden orange colour with not much of a head, the pour might have contributed to the poor head though?
Mild citrus aromas along with some hops esters and light malts.
Sharp, crisp and refreshing, almost lager-like in the first sip. The hops then take over and a bitterness not found in many lagers comes to the fore.
A bit lightweight in the body, lacks depth and complexity.
A Mr Average beer, not unpleasant, but not something I'll look out for again.
12-11-2009 12:28:07 | More by BlackHaddock
Young's London Gold (Kew Gold) from Wells & Young's Ltd
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Peyton and Byrne by FarrowJanuary 21st, 2010
New packaging for a range of Peyton and Byrne chocolate bars by Farrow.
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New packaging for a range of Peyton and Byrne chocolate bars by Farrow.
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LA Organic was born in back in 2004 with focus on producing a top quality Spanish Organic Extra Virgin Olive Oil.
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Beautiful brand identity extending across multiple products for Japan's The Calpis Food Industry Co. by Taku Satoh Design Office.
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"This is a redesigned for General Electric high-end light bulbs. The package is designed with recycled material to promote sustainability. Information is cleanly organized into a label system to reduce printing over the whole package."
Designed by Mongkol Praneenit, United States
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"Melgarejo has produced for this campaign three new single varieties of Frantoio, Arbequina and Hojiblanca and, born with the purpose of showing our customers the most typical sensory aspects of each of the varieties. All fruits were collected between October 19 and November 11, meeting each variety in their optimum moment of ripeness, so that the oils obtained are exceptional.
The oils are maturing in our cellar, so that once filtered, they can be marketed. We plan from its sale earlier this year.
We hope thus to generate culture of aromas and flavors that give each of the varieties of extra virgin oils."
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"Alcohol designed for women. Based on the phrase: "in vino veritas" [in wine there is the truth]. Much like in this project the phrase suggests that one tends to reveal his true feelings under the influence of alcohol."
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After the first fragrance by Comme des Garçons and the UK Monocle magazine, Scent One: Hinoki, got to the market and became a real hit, they decided to continue the success and launched a new scent. The name of the latest product is simple, Scent Two: Laurel, and it brings back the memories of victories and inspiring aromas of laurel wreaths.
The new fragrance was released just in time for the upcoming holidays, and it surely stands to win the attention of consumers during the festive season and later. The minimalistic white packaging with dark-grey pencil-style lettering is underlining the fresh clean notes of the fragrance.
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"The Boa Boca Gourmet project was born in Évora in 2004, is a small company which currently employs five people. Began with the opening of a gourmet shop with a strong component of design. Since 2006 the company's members António João Policarpo (Designer degree in advertising communication and a master degree in graphic design by Alquimia da Cor) and Inês Varejao (Eng Agricultural and postgraduate in wines in Bordeaux – France) joined efforts and created the brand "FEITOÀMÃO®" and in partnership with small producers selected and moved forward with the creation and development of traditional Portuguese food products of high quality, handmade with care and wisdom, and packed with an image carefully and packaging excellence.
The concept is "Food + Design" and the aim is to show the traditional Portuguese products transforming them into objects of design, trendy and desirable. The products are sold in Boa Bocas Gourmet shop and several selected stores (gourmet shops, designer shops and hotels) across the country and also in the first steps in Spain, Netherlands, UK, USA and Belgium.
With a constant concern social partnership-based positive, honest and true with the small farmers in sustainable and fair values with any concern for quality certification and in detail, with an enthusiastic team and a spirit of sacrifice in which all the victories and problems are shared always tried to keep a positive environment because we believe that the only way we can go further. Using 100% recyclable materials and always trying to use recycled materials to environmental concerns is also always present.
The national and international awards that the project has received gives us strength to continue against all obstacles in this long road ahead."
Designed by António Policarpo, Portugal
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IdeaPaint is a single-coat, roller-applied paint that can turn any "paintable" surface into a dry-erase surface. Essentially, IdeaPaint can create a whiteboard environment wherever your ideas might take form (walls, columns, doors, refrigerators, bathrooms, etc.)—but it's less than half the cost of a traditional whiteboard and better performing. IdeaPaint is also the most environmentally friendly dry-erase product on the market, with limited packaging, transport and materials required."
The branding and packaging was designed by Jones. Big graphic elements were used to emphasize the product's simplicity. 50 square feet. Mix THIS into THAT. I really like the honest simplicity. By creating a look that is totally different from the usual paint product category, Jones achieved a standalone look that differentiates IdeaPaint from all other regular paint.
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The packaging design is an amusing combination of the shape of a pumpkin and fresh noodles. The style evokes a non-industrial product, quite luxurious, and yet affordable.
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Visual identity for a new artisan bakery chain in Valencia, Spain:
"Contemporary reinterpretation of the traditional wheat ear to form a pattern that is easily recognizable. A twist to the typical bakery look using literal illustrations of wheat. The chevron pattern also reminds of antique artisan techniques such as opus spicatum (used to build stone round bread ovens in the past) or woven esparto baskets.
The naming concept is based on word repetition in order to emphasize authenticity. Bread-bread, as in real bread. This system is carried throughout all communication materials, and has endless possibilities, all grouped under one slogan with double meaning: "PanPan. Repetirás" (translation: BreadBread. You will repeat)."
Designed by Rocío Martinavarro.
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Although these might be for Christmas 2008 but ideas like these are so timeless and endearing.
Do check out http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/11/view/8271/chris-lee-founder-of-asylum-creative.html and http://www.designsingapore.org/pda/pdf/pda_09/2009_chapt5.pdf too.
Loving the packaging from Byredo.
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A gorgeous design by SabotagePKG for Prism London. Many more images after the jump.
"Eyewear is about optics and light, it was intended to capture this in an iconic design. A crystalline prism form seemed idyllic as a solution, the transparent two-piece injection moulded case stands upright and reflects this core idea that glasses are all about light and vision. The case design stands apart from anything else on the market giving the PRISM brand real standout at point of sale.
PRISM is a new brand of hand-made, hand-finished glasses. It was a primary objective to create an outstandingly different concept for eyewear packaging that also offers POS display. PRISM is aimed at the top end of the eyewear market, to people for whom glasses are an important aesthetic accessory and retailed at global high-end stores to include Browns, London and Barneys, NY."
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OK Nittany Nation....it's time to fill every seat at Beaver Stadium for every home game. Send the freakin idiots at the NCAA a clear message that they can't....and WE WILL NOT LET THEM bring us down. They can cram that consent order up their @#%$ That - win or lose - we will always be there to support the men on the field that represent who WE ARE!
National TV will be our venue...to proclaim the "sanctimonious" NCAA is ineffective in its desire to drain our Blue and White veins. If you can't make it to a game...give your ticket to someone who can...fill that seat!