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Mediterranean Chicken Salad with Greek Dressing
When you're in the mood for a Greek salad, look no further than this sensational chicken and vegetable recipe. Bottled Greek dressing reduces preparation time to less than 30 minutes.
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- Start to Finish:
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Mediterranean Chicken Salad with Greek Dressing
cup bottled Greek salad dressing with feta cheese
ounces chicken tenders
cups mixed baby greens
16 ounce jar pickled mixed vegetables (giardiniera), drained and rinsed
cup pitted kalamata olives, halved
cup onion-and-garlic croutons (optional)
- Brush 2 tablespoons of the dressing on chicken tenders. Lightly sprinkle black pepper.
- Heat grill pan or large nonstick skillet over medium high heat; add chicken. Reduce heat to medium. Cook 5 to 7 minutes, turning once or until no pink remains. Slice chicken tenders in bite-size chunks.
- In salad bowl toss together greens, chicken, drained vegetables, olives, and remaining dressing. Top with croutons. Makes 4 servings.
Nutrition Facts(Mediterranean Chicken Salad with Greek Dressing)
- Per serving:
- 305 kcal cal.,
- 21 g fat
- (2 g sat. fat,
- 49 mg chol.,
- 1517 mg sodium,
- 9 g carb.,
- 2 g fiber,
- 1 g sugar,
- 21 g pro.
- Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet


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Bill Atwill is Associate Director of the Honors College at UNCW. He holds a PhD in English from Duke University. An avid surfer, cyclist, backpacker and hiker, he is interested in literature and the environment with a particular focus on narrative responses to life along the seacoast in American literature. He leads week-long trips to various national parks as part of the National Collegiate Honors Council's Partners in the Parks initiative.
Who are the National Park Travelers?
A list of the folks who have created profiles on the website. If you'd like to add yourself to this list, create an account, and after you've logged in, you can edit your biography.
I'm a wilderness advocate and nature writer whose resume lists a dozen books and a wealth of articles and essays. (Traveler reviewed my book, Changing Paths: Travels and Meditations in Alaska's Arctic Wilderness, back in January 2010).
Jon Jarvis is the director of the National Park Service.
The Natchez Trace National Historic Parkway is just across my boundary line. Got interested in that park as a very young child and it stays interesting now that I am in my mid 50s. There is a deer trail that runs as far north as I have yet followed it, a reminder of what park historians say is the way the Trace started. There is something wonderous about going out and standing in the woods, looking at that trail and thinking that if I wanted to, I could set out on it and, with minor deviations, walk 350 miles north on it, or turn around and walk 107 miles south. All without seeing more than a smidgin of modern life.Dad took me to the Smokies in '58 and got me hooked on the park there. Coming home, Grandpa got me hooked on the Trace. In my childs' mind, I figured that somehow the Trace would take me to the Smokies. Well, my cousins live up there, just outside the Smokies, in view of Chilhowee Mountain. So there was a bit more to it than just park.
I am currently working on a PhD in Geography at Florida State Univeristy. I am researching issues of Indigenous Spatial Knowledge and how government agencies deals with the issues involved. I was a Xanterra employee at Grant Village Lodge in summer of 2008. I try to vacation at least once a year at a National Park, especially the western parks.
I live in north east Texas, Fort Worth I enjoy camping, fishing, Hiking and taking pictures of nature.
I'm a writer and outdoor educator based in Park City, Utah. Having spent 10 years working in communications and interpretation at three national parks (Big Bend, Yellowstone, and Yosemite, if you're wondering), I now use writing to tell the stories of national parks and other wild places.
I also works as an outdoor educator for a local guiding company and a state nature preserve. Find my Internet home here (http://www.meghanmhicks.com).
Ian Shive is an award-winning conservation photographer, author and multimedia producer whose goal is to captivate audiences through new trends in story telling using imagery as the primary tool.
Ian is the recent recipient of the Gold Medal, 2010 Nautilus Book Award, in the Great Peacekeepers category in recognition of his top-selling book The National Parks: Our American Landscape, released in August 2009 on Earth Aware Editions, for promoting "spiritual growth, conscious living and positive social change…and offering the reader "new possibilities" for a better life and world, joining previous Nautilus Award winners including Deepak Chopra, M.D., Eckhart Tolle, and His Holiness the Dalai Lama, among others.
Referred to as the leading chronicler of America's National Parks today and a self-labeled "wilderness diplomat," Ian and his book The National Parks: Our American Landscape were the focus of a presentation on the challenges facing America's most beloved landscapes in Washington, D.C. in November 2009, hosted by Senators Sheldon Whitehouse and Max Baucus.
Tom Till is one of America's most published photographers. Over 150,000 of his images have appeared in print since 1977. In 1998, Till opened the Tom Till Gallery in Moab, Utah. Till's
images depict landscape, nature, history, and travel subjects worldwide, including all fifty states and nearly sixty countries overseas.
Till's stock photography images have been featured by National Geographic Magazine, The New York Times, Outside Magazine, Canon Copiers, Delta Airlines, The New Yorker Magazine, Life Magazine, Browntrout Calendars, Eastman Kodak, Reader's Digest, Rand McNally, MGM, Arizona Highways, Lonely Planet, and thousands of others.
An exhibit of his images of UNESCO World Heritage Sites has been traveling the world for almost three years, with stops in Paris, Brussels, Copenhagen, Geneva and Oslo, among others.
Though Till has been known as a master of the large format (4x5) camera and film for over 30 years, he has switched to 35mm digital Canon equipment. Recent trips have taken him to South Africa, Brazil, the Caribbean, Thailand, Laos, Myanmar, Viet Nam, Denmark, Sweden, and Slovenia, and numerous sites in the United States. A 35-year resident of Moab, Utah, Till has one of the largest photo libraries in existence of the Four Corners region.
I love to go visiting the National Parks, and have been lucky to go backpacking and hiking in a number of them. I also love the historical parks, since I'm a history buff and grew up near Valley Forge and Gettysburg. My husband and I are now getting our 5-year-old daughter into hiking and she did her first back-packing trip in Canyonlands this spring.
I'm the partnership coordinator for the Tongass National Forest, duty stationed in Ketchikan, Alaska.From a very young age, I've enjoyed our national parks and public lands, but I've taken a convoluted path to this career. Other hats I've worn include motorsports PR manager, editorial writer, sports journalist and park ranger-interpreter. I hold an MS in recreation from Indiana University and a BS in journalism from the University of Idaho.
I was first lured into the world of the NPS by way of the Wonderful World of Disney, through their programing. Having grown up in Chicago, I never would thought that I was never going to see Yellowstone National Park. We always went to the Indiana Dunes, but that was it. After I was married, our honeymoon was spent in Rocky Mountain National Park. That was in 1980. About 5 yrs later, My husband and I went to Yellowstone for the 1st time, and we have been there numerous times afterwords. We moved to Denver and since then, we have been to Glaicer, Mesa Verde, Arches, Carlsbad Caverns, The little Big Horn, Black Canyon of the Gunnison, Pawnee National Grass lands just to name a few. I have a active interest in the Sioux wars and the settlement of the west. Thank you Dee Brown, for that interest. We go as often as we can, to the national parks. There are some that I still need to see, like how did I miss Canyonlands while I was in Moab, or Capital Reef, Zion etc. But that is the beauty of living in Denver. I am centered in a state, that I can travel to these places with in a day of driving. When I retire fulltime, then the traveling with be more intense, as that is something that Hubby and I like to do. I would also like to see as many of the national parks as I can. They are a inspiration to me.
Formerly a Forestry Technician for the US Forest Service in the Angeles National Forest, my home base and where I learned to backpack. I am currently a Park Ranger Reserve for Orange County Parks. I am also a Certified Interpretive Guide, and lead several hikes a month in Santiago Oaks Regional Park covering the natural and human history topics.My wife and I find no greater joy in the world than traveling to our National Parks. Here is the list of Parks we have under our belt:Please visit our blog!
Well-known national parks writer Nicky Leach is the award-winning author of The Parks of New Mexico (Sierra Press, 2008) among numerous official park guides interpreting and celebrating the natural and cultural history preserved in western national parks.
Born and raised in the 6th-century cathedral city of Ely in the moody Fen country of eastern England, Nicky moved to the western US in 1980 after an early career teaching in London schools. She cut her book publishing teeth while working as an editor for small presses in California and Arizona.
She began visiting parks and producing illustrated park books for the National Park Service, national park cooperating associations, and park concessionaires while she was executive editor of Sequoia Communications, a packager of high-quality visitor books in Santa Barbara, California.
A freelance writer and editor since 1989, Nicky has made a point of living close to some of the West's most dramatic national parks, including Seattle, Washington; Flagstaff, Arizona; and Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she currently makes her home. Bandelier National Monument and nearby Chaco Canyon are two of her favorite parks in New Mexico, but her general rule for travel is simple: If it has a park, I'm there.
Nicky's most recent park publications are Wilderness of Rock: Canyonlands National Park (with photographer Tom Till, Sierra Press, 2009) and an extensive revision of Insight Guide: US National Parks West (Apa Publications, 2005; rev. 2011). For more information, log on to www.nickyleachwriter-editor.com.
I started a rather short NPS career as a seasonal Ranger / Naturalist at Norris Geyser Basin in Yellowstone in 1966. In 1968, I transferred to Old Faithful as a "Protection Ranger," where I had the great privilege of working with a young Jerry Mernin.
In August of 1968 I was sent to Albright Training Center for my "Introduction to Park Operations." Then it was on to Yosemite. From Yosemite to Greenbelt Park alongside the B-W Parkway in Maryland. We had to have some "Urban Experience" in those days. El Morro in New Mexico was next where I served under Robert L. Morris as Supervisory Ranger. We were part of the old Navajo Lands Group where Art White was general superintendent and Charlie Voll was archaeologist. My final permanent assignment was as Chief of I&RM at Wupatki / Sunset Crater National Monuments just north of Flagstaff, Arizona.
Because we were transferred about every three years in those days and because I'd grown up bouncing from school to school as an Army brat, I pulled the NPS plug and returned to teaching hoping my kids could grow up in a single school. I did spend a couple more seasons as a Ranger / Naturalist in Zion where Victor Jackson was chief of interpretation. That was pure fun! Outdoors enjoying the park and its visitors -- leading guided walks up Angel's Landing and the Narrows . . . and very little paperwork and none of the political shenanigans of permanency.
Retired now and spending as much time (and money) as I can spare to visit my favorite places and explore new ones throughout the park system. Things have certainly changed in NPS, and it's mostly been for the better I think. One thing that hasn't changed, though, is the quality of the people who wear the uniforms of the National Park Service -- whether they be maintenance workers, rangers, or volunteers. There is no finer bunch of folks anywhere on this dizzy old planet!
This was a particularly big week for my daughter and I as we celebrated her 18th birthday along with my 40th. The flood of memories took me back to a time when she was little and we would scramble the trails in Catoctin National and Cunningham Falls State Parks in MD. It would always end with her on my shoulders on the decent but it man, we were wide open. Thankfully those days shaped her desire for outdoor activity and conservationist ideals. I am also reminded that it's been a while since my last hike. My birthday wish this year was a pledge to myself to get back on the trail. I will also attempt to create a blog of my trips this year beginning here in Maryland. I live on the eastern shore near Assateague Island National Seashore. I want to trek the National and State parks and help bring some awareness to not only the awesome spaces but also how accessable they are. I know attendence was down last year, some recession driven, but I think people just forget how affordable the parks really are. Now is a fantastic time to get out and see these special places. I hope my blogs and journal notes will be well received and that people might find some of the same inspiration from our most coveted wilderness and historic places that has drawn me for a lifetime. I appreciate the opportunity to share with you and your readers. Happy Trails.
Lynn Fantom is a New York based media executive with one foot on the ground in Maine. Her 1880 home on Mount Desert Island is across from the fiord which divides Acadia National Park's 46,000 acres. She writes frequently on topics ranging from Teddy Roosevelt's impact on conservation to Bar Harbor's best lobster pounds. Read more at www.ouracadia.com.
I'm Susan. I love our national parks. Last year I visited The Dry Tortugas. We made it in two hours by catamaran.
I am a photographer living in Gatlinburg TN, on the edge of the Great Smoky Mountains. The Smokies are a very spiritual place, and I attempt to capture some of that spirit in each of my photographs.
I write a daily blog celebrating life in the Smoky Mountains, and have a gallery in the Arts and Crafts area of Gatlinburg.
You can also follow me on Facebook and get a daily feed of Smoky Mountains news to your Facebook page.
For nearly thirty years, the Wrangell Mountains Center has served an increasingly broad group of people from throughout the world while maintain a place-based approach informed by the particular grandeur and power of the Wrangells.
Based in McCarthy, Alaska, at the heart of the nation's largest National Park and just minutes from the toe of the Kennicott Glacier, the private nonprofit Wrangell Mountains Center fosters appreciation, understanding, and stewardship of wildlands and mountain culture in Alaska through scientific and artistic inquiry in the Wrangell Mountains. Meeting the needs of students, writers, artists, scientists, travelers and local citizens, we offer opportunities for people of all ages and abilities to explore, express, and be transformed through direct experience with this extraordinary place.
The Wrangell Mountains Center provides residential and walk-in experiential education programs that foster discovery through direct contact with diverse environments. We embrace an interdisciplinary approach composed of analytical, artistic, and scientific modes of perception. We value wilderness both for its own sake and for the powerful direct experience it offers us.
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Hello, I'm a year around resident of East Glacier Park, Montana where I operate Finalshot Photography and Glacier Impressions Gallery. I live on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains and the Crown of the Continent because that's where the world happens - everyday. Glacier Park is the center of my outdoor adventure lifestyle. I've traveled all over this continent and there is no place outside of the NWT, and Alaska with so much to offer the mountain outdoor adventurer . . .
Let me know if there's anything I can do to help make your next visit to Glacier National Park more enjoyable.
Thank you and have a great day!
Tony Bynum
East Glacier Park, MT
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Also likes to cook, fish and surf the web
I'm the author of eight Northwest guidebooks including Day Hiking Olympic Peninsula and Day Hiking North Cascades (Mountaineers Books). You can visit me at http://CraigRomano.com
Raised in the bustle of Southern California, Julie somehow became a wilderness guide in southern Utah. Since 1999, she has taken clients ages six to seventy-six hiking, backpacking, and horse packing in Utah's gorgeous red canyon deserts and high alpine meadows.
Julie has a lot of fun exploring hidden Native American ruins with her faithful canine companion, learning ancient skills such as the bow drill fire, and being a dedicated yogini. She has yet to meet a mug of good coffee that she doesn't like.
A word crafter since the second grade, Julie writes often about the American Southwest for both print and web publications. You can find her blogging at http://www.wildgirlwriting.com/
I'm the former Northwest Editor of Backpacker Magazine. You can follow my stories and photos from my adventure travels at The BigOutside. I can be reached at , and you can follow me at twitter.com/MichaelALanza and http://www.facebook.com/pages/TheBigOutsidecom/122369157802280
I grew up next door to Acadia National Park, and I love working to promote stewardship of this beautiful place. As communications and outreach coordinator for Friends of Acadia, I am the editor of the Friends of Acadia Journal and Annual Report, and I also handle media communications and manage our online presence.
Well, I've only visited 6 National Parks, and family matters will prevent me from going to another for a while, but I really enjoy all the articles and comments people make. (I have been to many more of the smaller units).
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Wanda Zuchowski-Schick was raised and still resides in Rossford, in Northwest, Ohio, the ninth of fifteen children. She devotes her full attention to her career in the fine arts, and becoming recognized as a painter of the National Parks. She has exhibited her paintings and prints, primarily, throughout the states of Ohio, Illinois, and Michigan. She has exhibited at the Ohio Watercolor Society numerous times and has been an exhibitor in their prestigious Ohio Watercolor Traveling Exhibit . She has been a participant and has won numerous awards at the Toledo Federation of Art Societies Annual Exhibit held at the Toledo Museum of Art.
In 1997 she was awarded an Artist-in-Residency at Isle Royale National Park. As a guest of the park service she spent 16 days in isolated wilderness pursuing her art. In 2002 she was awarded another Artist-in-Residency at Voyageurs National Park. Again for two weeks she worked in the wilderness. She spent a week in 2004, painting, at Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore. Every October, she travels to Yellowstone National Park to experience the majesty of the park.
Her most recent trip to Isle Royale National Park was in the summer of 2010.
Her paintings are realistic in style. She uses transparent watercoloror or oil emulsion to create her images. Due to time constrictions, she works from photographs she takes while pursuing her subject matter.
She tries, through her paintings, to share her view of the unspoiled expanse of land that words cannot describe. Being alone out in the vast expanse of our National Parks humbles her and creates an inner peace. Her paintings are very personal. She wants only to express her impression of the wildness and beauty of the land. At times that beauty may be a simple flower.
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I live in Santa Barbara, California. I am very interested in the national parks. I studied geology of national parks while in college. My wife and I have visited many of the national parks.


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Helen E. Dinger, 70, of Grove City,previously of Harrisville, Pa., died Wednesday May 8, 2013, at Butler Memorial Hospital in Butler, Pa.
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So we skeptics needn't begrudge Black America its Judeo-Christian obsessions, especially when they yield such delights as the following five gospel albums. The first thing you'll notice is that each record incorporates a regional flavor. Chicago's status as the "golden era" gospel stronghold is the stepping-off point for the praise and worship team known as Shekinah Glory Ministry. The sophisticated swing of New York session players pervades the black Israelite choir Voices of Shalom. Aaron Neville steeps his eclectic selection of folk hymns and pop-rock spirituals in the multiethnic sensuality of New Orleans. Detroit-bred evangelist Dorinda Cole-Clark does justice to her hometown legacy of Aretha Franklin, Motown, and the Clark Conservatory of Music with soulful solo testimony. Meanwhile, Kirk Franklin survives being sued by members of the Familyhis first big crossover choirto dance and shout like a Texan tent-revival leader through an ambitious autobiographical recording so rich in stylistic diversity it should have been titled "Songs in the Key of God." All five albums exist largely to affirm the persistence of faith through adversity . . . which is actually the main characteristic they have in common.
Producer Tinker "El-Uriel" Barfield is one of about 25,000 Black Israelites who live in the New York area, mostly close-knit families who've been quietly keeping kosher, celebrating Passover, and bar or bat mitzvahing their children since the 1930s and '40s. Before called to help lead his father's Brooklyn temple, Barfield had been a ranking member of the local session scene that produced Chic, Luther Vandross, and a host of other r&b innovators. His wife, Alfa Anderson (now a school principal), had been half of the "Lucy & Alfa" team fronting Chic singles like "Le Freak" and "Good Times." In the early '90s Barfield channeled his songwriting energy into the female vocal group Voices of Shalom, featuring Alfa among the lead vocalists. Their second independent CD, Daily Bread (voicesofshalom.com), surrounds the linear melodies a temple cantor might sing with subtly orchestrated melismatic colors derived from blues and funk. And where it departs most from Christian gospel is in God-centered lyrics with no mention of Jesus. Otherwise, their radio-friendly tunes deploy the same MIDI magic and driving syncopation that keep Mary J. and Destiny's Child on the pop charts.
Less obvious in its mainstream applications is Shekinah Glory Ministry's independent double CD Praise Is What I Do: Vols. 1 & 2 (Kingdom Records/Point of Grace). Not a choir so much as a portable "praise and worship" ensemble, Shekinah's collaborative team was dreamed up at their pastor's request by the music director of Chicago's nondenominational Valley Kingdom Ministries. Numinous promptings moved Elder Rose Harper to attempt to record an interactive church service in which music would invoke and demonstrate the palpable presence of Deity. What you hear on these two CDs is everything that transpired in the studio, without editing or overdubs. When asked why a Christian troupe would name themselves after a mystical Jewish term for the feminine aspect of God, they say because "Shekinah" also means "the manifest glory of God."
Kirk Franklin and Dorinda Clark-Cole were only two of the multiple winners worshiping alongside Shekinah at January's televised Stellar Awards. Franklin had taken most of the evening's top honors, and although it didn't cross over to pop radio like God's Property's "Stomp," the kinetic psalm "Hosanna" from The Rebirth of Kirk Franklin (GospoCentric) had all the youthful bounce and stylish pizzazz of his previous stab at progressive soul gospel. Though billed as a solo album, Rebirth sports a slew of star cameos from Shirley Caesar to Donnie McClurkin, making Franklin come off like the Quincy Jones of black religious music. In some ways Franklin's current material dovetails with that of his labelmate Dorinda, the author of five cuts on her eponymous debut. Both admit the human frailties of clergy: Clark-Cole during "It's Not Me," and Franklin on "911," a poignant duet with Bishop T.D. Jakes.
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Such strategically broad appeal is more than matched by Aaron Neville on his pop-gospel release Believe (EMI Gospel). But Neville is not a gospel artist per se. That's why his approach to devotional music is so intriguing when judged against the work of self-identified saints and preachers. Neville's angelic tenor, embellished with occasional blue triplets, is as lovely on Hank Williams's "I Saw the Light" as on a version of "Ave Maria." Because he doesn't have to prove himself saved or sanctified, he takes on the intrinsic authority of whatever song he sings. What makes his reworking of "Oh Happy Day" a triumph is how he doesn't adhere to some straitlaced rule book of gospel execution. Each of the artists here is a bit rebellious in that respect, but Nevillewith his tattoos, gangster lean, and biker physiqueis at ease with this rebelliousness in a way currently impossible for the "elect" of any church.
Unburdened by doctrinal disputes and freed of the responsibilities of congregational leadership, Aaron Neville gives voice to a breezier, happier form of faith. His work may lack an aura of supernatural genius and iron discipline, but it glows with the lambent grace of genuine humility so difficult for the most talented and influential defenders of Black Judeo-Christian traditions to attain.
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I dont want to worry you, but Shane Mosleys girlfriend says she thinks Shane is going to win the fight. By the way, imagine if she didnt; its like yea maybe, but Im not betting on this thing, Jimmy Kimmel
They discuss the upcoming May 7 bout between Manny Pacquiao and Shane Mosley, as well as politics and his brand new CD release, where Pacquiao sings seven different versions of Sometimes When We Touch featuring Dan Hill.
Both Kimmel and Pacquiao seem to think that Pacquiaos appearance at the show is giving him good luck in his upcoming fights. Lets see if this is still the case on May 7 in Las Vegas, NV.
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Tunicate cytostatic factor TC14-3 induces a polycomb group gene and histone modification through Ca2+ binding and protein dimerization
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I did the November challenge and hit 605 items out of my house. I'm going to try and hit 1500 by New Years.
I think it's key for me to keep my tally running. It really helps me see that number climb and to see exactly how much was in my house that no longer needed to be here. And given that we are still drowning in stuff I have a long long way to go. (I'm a recovering packrat - Dh... well... he's still infected with the curse...)
1500? I probably have that many things that need to be gone.. but wow. Can you imagine what your home would be like with 1500 items gone? I bet it would be amazing.. no clutter anywhere!
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OK, so my goal is to get rid of another 250 things, but ONLY from our main living space. For right now, the garage doesn't bother me, the attic doesn't bother me--the inside of the house? Makes me
How does it work? Do we keep checking in and supporting each other, that sort of thing?
I'm in--we are moving into a 950 sq foot place with almost no storage--just a few closets but no linen closet (gasp!!! what will I do??!!) so I've really gotta get rid of things. I think I'll try to get rid of half my books and a box of trophies, 2 boxes of toys from my childhood, sports stuff, wedding decoration thingies from our wedding 3 years ago, and my camping stuff. I haven't gone real camping or backpacking for years so I guess I don't need it anymore. But my knitting stuff stays, no one is ever touching that!
Good luck with your move! We're planning to move in the spring and I know it's going to be a big job. The more I can declutter now, the easier it will be then.
I also just cleared out some of our wedding decorations from 4 years ago. I didn't realize I kept so much of it! Even the little cake inserts (why would I need those?!).. I kept a few little special things, but sent the rest to Goodwill. Someone else will be able to use 100 of those little bell-ringing cards
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DRZ400E Andy Strapz Pannier Racks
Can anyone let me know or post up a picture of where the bottom strut on the Andy Strapz pannier racks bolt onto a DRZ?
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Do you mean Andy Strapz pannier racks?
Andystrapz then whipps???
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Sorry about that, I ment Andy Strapz pannier racks for their 'Expedition' panniers. (I was also looking at a Whipps rear rack and typed that by mistake).
I have a set of Andy Strapz Expedition panniers off my DR650 which I'm selling. So I'm going to either buy some 'Giant Loop' luggage (no racks required) or get some racks and use the panniers I have.
The RHS mounts onto the same tab on the subframe as the exhaust, the LHS just bolts to the higher of the two tabs on the subframe in pretty much the same opposite location. Can probably organise a picture if that info isn't useful.
The problem I had with mine was that the B&B rack and the AndyS pannier racks both fight for the same upper mounting points, so the B&B rack had to sacrifice some of it's metal to make way for the panniers.
The reason I wanted to know was I run those stegz pegz and frame guards and things are a bit busy lower down, and I was hoping they didn't mount down there.
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To fit the pannier racks with the B&B top rack you need to trim about 5mm off the inside faces of the tubular B&B mounting points, and grind away part of the rounded sides of the mount. You can see it's a pretty snug fit from the picture below.
Cheers JD, I thought I'd have to trim the 5mm off the inside face but I didn't realise I'd need to trim the sides. In hindsight I wish I bought a Whipps rack, I reckon the B&B (while it looks neat and shiny) is not that practical. The tie points are crap whereas the Whipps looks a bit more agricultural but has a wider area and far better set up for tying stuff on. I've always bought a Whipps bash plates for different bikes over the years, again not as pretty as the B&B but the DRZ one has a 'wing' on the RHS to protect the water pump and they are as strong as buggery.
Thanks again for the advice.
Yeah, the B&B rack isn't too functional unless you add the top plate to it.
Whipps not ideal
Kipo the whipps rack I have is not ideal. The upturned sharp edges need to be covered with a split tube to prevent them rubbing through tie downs and bags. The top plate on the B&B looks like a good weapon to slice your leg IMO.
These racks from USA look like a practical and economic solution. http://www.moto-racks.com/~shop/main.html.
The rear rack is tubular (see above comment) and wider and the side pannier racks are easily detachable if you dont want them. Sure it looks less sexy than a B&B rack but that won't help when your gear keeps sliding off the rack.
I am considering getting some of these from USA. My current setup is a modified S model pannier racks from Dirt Bagz ( bit of cutting and drilling involved) and a Whipps rear rack.
Thanks XRman, I've gone off the idea of the Whipps rack. The one from the US looks the goods. The B&B is good for a tube bag or small bag for a day trip or maybe an over nighter but usless for anything else. Not sure of their logic, they make a rack then you have to adapt a 'luggage' plate to use it for it's intended purpose :confused
I've decide to make my own pannier racks, got 2 steel rectangles made up and bought the rest of the steel for a total cost of $65. I was going to drill through the mounting points of my B&B rack so I could run a bolt right through to attach the top brace of the pannier racks but I might wait now and look into this rack from the US before I make them.
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Partition--the idea of separating Jews and Arabs along ethnic or national lines--is a legacy at least as old as the Zionist-Palestinian conflict. Challenging the widespread "separatist imagination" behind partition, Gil Hochberg demonstrates the ways in which works of contemporary Jewish and Arab literature reject simple notions of separatism and instead display complex configurations of identity that emphasize the presence of alterity within the self--the Jew within the Arab, and the Arab within the Jew. In Spite of Partition examines Hebrew, Arabic, and French works that are largely unknown to English readers to reveal how, far from being independent, the signifiers "Jew" and "Arab" are inseparable.
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JetBlue Airways plans to launch premium service next year called "Mint." The premium cabin will feature lie-flat seats and a tapas menu, as well as amenity kits for travelers. "The reason we're doing this is our travelers were migrating over to American, over to United, over to Delta, over to Virgin America — (airlines) who had a premium cabin experience," said CEO Dave Barger.
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Property Details
5 bedrooms, 4 full bathrooms, 1 half bath in laundry room, sleeps 19
5 spacious bedrooms, (2 queens, 1 king, 4 doubles, 5 singles).Sleeps 19. Separate hot tub room w/ privacy on second level. Four full bathrooms with half bath in main floor laundry. Beautiful oak kitchen. Hardwood floors in kitchen, dining room, and living room. Spacious dining room(18'x20') has 12 foot sliding glass door leading to patio with gas grill. Living room(20'x26') has gas fireplace and beautiful view. Deck across front of house. Two bedrooms lead to decks.Master bath has 6' shower and walk in closet.Kitchen has double oven, large island, counter top range with full appliances. Upper level has family room w/ 42' TV w/ speakers, hot tub room and bedroom w/ deck. Located in the heart of the Hills between Rapid City and Keystone. Minutes away from tourist attractions: Mt. Rushmore, Bear Country USA, Rushmore Waterslide Park, Reptile Gardens, Hot Springs, Custer State Park. Great home to relax in the pines and spend time with family.
9 Acres of Pines: We are located on 9 acres of pine trees in the country. We are 10 miles from Keystone, SD near Mt. Rushmore. We are just minutes away from Rapid City, Custer, Hot Springs, and Hill City.
Recent Review
While it is a bit of a drive from Rapid City, it is centrally located to the main sites, so the location ended up being very convenient for us.
We would definitely stay here again, and would recommend this property to friends and family.
About the Owner
4 Reviews
4.8 based on 4 traveler reviews
Beautifully Maintained Home
The owners live in a small home next door, and are ready to help however they can. The home is spotless, and well stocked with all necessities. The large dining room table only has six chairs, and there is a counter that can be used to eat on. Additional dining is available outdoors, as long as the weather permits. There is a large family room with fire place downstairs, and a nice TV room upstairs. Wifi connection is available. There are 3 1/2 baths downstairs and one upstairs.
The large master bedroom has a king size bed, which is raised and requires steps to get into. The adjoining master bath is large with a tub/shower combination. There are two to four beds in each of the other four bedrooms. The only complaint from two couples in our group was that the mattresses were much too hard, (bunkie boards instead of box springs) and the pillows were either too big or too small. These couples were not able to sleep as well as those in the master and other front bedroom. It would be nice if there were some memory foam toppers or at least eggshell toppers to soften the beds.
The property advertises an indoor "hot tub". We all brought our bathing suits since where we are from, a hot tub is typically outdoors, where several people can get in and socialize together. The "hot tub" in this house is actually large jacuzzi bathtub for bathing, not socializing. Two individuals took baths in it after they had been on a hike and said it was nice for soaking.
One note, guests are asked not to wear shoes on the gorgeous hardwood floors. Be sure to bring some slippers or flip flops if you don't like to walk in socks or bare feet.
I really wish I could give this home 4.8 stars. Because of the rock hard beds in the bunks and upstairs bedroom, I am not giving it 5 stars. However, 4 stars seems too low since the home is really very lovely. I highly recommend it for groups.
While it is a bit of a drive from Rapid City, it is centrally located to the main sites, so the location ended up being very convenient for us.
We would definitely stay here again, and would recommend this property to friends and family.
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We will definitely stay here for our next gathering! Just perfect! Really enjoyed seeing the deer in the yard too.
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Rental rates
Additional information about rental rates
- Tax Rate 5.5%
- 500 per night
- 500 per night regardless of number of people or length of stay We do not charge extra for Sturgis week
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Property Type
- house
- Family
- Tourist Attractions
- Activities Guide
- Air Conditioning
- Alarm Clock
- Basic Soaps
- Broadband Access
- Ceiling Fans
- Clothes Dryer
- Fireplace
- Garage
- Heating
- Internet
- Iron & Board
- Laundry Soap
- Linens Provided
- Local Activities Guide
- Local Maps
- Mobile Phone
- Paper Towels
- Parking
- Shampoo
- Telephone
- Toilet Paper
- Towels Provided
- Washing Machine
- Water Cooler
- Wireless Internet
- Blender
- Coffee Grinder
- Coffee Maker
- Cooking Utensils
- Dishwasher
- Freezer
- Grill
- Ice Maker
- Microwave
- Oven
- Pantry Items
- Refrigerator
- Stove
- Toaster
- Dining Area
- Books
- Books for Adults
- Books for Kids
- CD Player
- DVD Player
- Games
- Games for Kids
- Radio
- Television
- Toys
- Video Library
Pool / Spa
- Hot Tub
- Indoor Hot Tub
- Events Allowed
- children welcome
- non smoking only
- pets not allowed
Location Type
- Mountain
- Rural
- caves
- churches
- cinemas
- coin laundry
- forests
- library
- live theater
- museums
- playground
- restaurants
- synagogues
- water parks
- waterfalls
- winery tours
Leisure Activities
- antiquing
- bird watching
- gambling casinos
- horseback riding
- outlet shopping
- paddle boating
- scenic drives
- sight seeing
- walking
Local Services & Businesses
- ATM/bank
- groceries
- hospital
- laundromat
- medical services
Sports & Adventure Activities
- cycling
- equestrian events
- fishing
- fly fishing
- golf
- golf privileges optional
- hiking
- hunting
- hunting small game
- ice skating
- mountain biking
- mountain climbing
- roller blading
- ski lift privileges
- skiing
- swimming
- tennis
- water skiing
Floor Area
- 3500 sq. ft.
- 4 Bathrooms,
- 1 Half Bath
- Bathroom 1 - toilet, shower
- Bathroom 2 - toilet, combination tub/shower, 6' tub
- Bathroom 3 - toilet, combination tub/shower
- Bathroom 4 - toilet, jetted tub, hot tub room
- Bathroom 5 - toilet, sink and laundry room
- Floors are ceramic tile with toilets that are 19' high except one that is regular height.
- 4 Bedrooms, Sleeps 20
- Bedroom 1 - 1 king
- Bedroom 2 - 1 queen, 1 double, 1 twin/ single
- Bedroom 3 - 2 double, 2 twin/ single
- Bedroom 4 - 1 queen, 1 twin/ single
- Bedroom 5 - 1 double, 1 twin/ single
- Two bedrooms on lower level are 16' x 16'. One is 13' x 16' w/ full bathroom. Master bedroom is 16' x 20'. Upper bedroom is 13' x 16' with private deck.
- Balcony
- Outdoor Grill Gas
- Patio
- Wood Deck
- 8 garden chairs
- Guests provide their own meals


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This weekend I stumbled across Alexander Fury writing in T Magazine about the social significance of men's fashion. Like many people, I default to thinking of high fashion as frivolous and mostly irrelevant. When you expand your time frame, it becomes clear that's not the case.
The system that created Ferguson, Missouri
When I opened a tab with Radley Balko's lengthy Washington Post article, How municipalities in St. Louis County, Mo., profit from poverty, I had some preconceived notions. It's become increasingly difficult to raise taxes to pay for government programs, so governments are increasingly relying on alternative means to raise funds. In many cases, the burden winds up falling largely on the poor. The classic example here is state lotteries.
The article does cover that territory — it explains how small municipalities around St. Louis fund their governments through fines, court fees, traffic tickets, and so forth. What I didn't expect was how intimately tied to racism this is. In the present, this manifests itself in white elected officials presiding over white cops squeezing black populations for as much money as they can get, leading to harassment and ultimately alienation. The current circumstances are the result of prior racism. When African Americans started moving to the St. Louis suburbs, whites responded by trying to zone them out:
Instead, developers would create new subdivisions outside a city. White people would move in. As black families moved north and west of the city, these subdivisions would try to keep them out by zoning themselves as single-family housing only. That barred the construction of public and low-income housing.
Because of the way Missouri laws work, the subdivisions incorporated and created tiny towns, towns that were too small to have a self-sustaining tax base. Instead, they use their independent police forces to wring the money out of residents who don't have the political power to prevent this from happening.
We all observed what's happen in Ferguson, Missouri with horror. Balko explains the system in which Ferguson exists. It's a must-read.
Surprisingly, Perl outperforms sed and Awk
Normally the performance of utilities and scripting languages really isn't an issue – they're all fast enough for the task at hand, but sometimes, that isn't the case. For example, my team has built a database replication system that copies many millions of records from a set of sharded databases to a data warehouse every day. When it exports data from the originating databases, it needs to add a database identifier to every record, represented by a line in a TSV file.
The easiest way to do this is to pipe the output of the mysql command to a script that simply appends a value to each line. I started by using sed, for reasons of simplicity. This command appends a tab and the number 1 to every line of input:
sed 's/$/\t1/'
Unfortunately, as the amount of data being replicated increased, we found that the CPU on the box running the replication script was pegged at 100%, and
sed was using most of it, so I started experimenting with alternatives.
To test, I used a 50 million line text file. The table the sample was taken from has over 3 billion rows, so you can see why the performance of this simple piece of code becomes important.
My approach to testing is simple, cat the file through the transformation and then just redirect the output to /dev/null. Here's the baseline (the test was run on my MacBook Pro):
$ time cat test.tsv > /dev/null
real 0m0.615s
user 0m0.006s
sys 0m0.608s
Here's how sed performs:
$ time cat test.tsv | sed 's/$/\t1/' > /dev/null
real 0m57.405s
user 0m56.845s
sys 0m1.970s
I read on one of the Stack Exchange sites that Awk might be faster, so I tried that:
$ time cat test.tsv | awk '{print $0 "\t2"}' > /dev/null
real 3m51.618s
user 3m50.367s
sys 0m3.676s
As you can see, Awk is a lot slower than sed, and it doesn't even use a regular expression. I also read that using Bash with no external commands might be faster, so I tried this out:
$ time cat test_5m.tsv | while read line; do echo "$line\t2"; done > /dev/null
real 7m24.761s
user 3m16.709s
sys 5m54.428s
Those results are from a test file with 5 million lines, 1/10 the size of the other tests. The Bash solution is roughly 10 times slower than the Awk solution. At this point, I felt a little stuck. Nothing I tried outperformed the sed approach that we were already using. For some reason, I thought it might be worth it to try a Perl one-liner. Perl is known for having good performance for a scripting language, but at the same time, I couldn't imagine that Perl could outperform sed, which is much simpler. First, I tried a direct translation of the sed solution:
$ time cat test.tsv | perl -pe 's/$/\t2/' > /dev/null
real 0m42.030s
user 0m41.296s
sys 0m2.805s
I was surprised by this result, Perl beat sed handily. I've run these tests a number of times, and I've found that Perl reliably outperforms the sed equivalent in an apples to apples comparison. Of course, I didn't have to use a regular expression here, I was just matching the end of the line. What happens when I leave the regex out?
$ time cat test.tsv | perl -ne 'chomp; print "$_\t2\n"' > /dev/null
real 0m12.938s
user 0m12.344s
sys 0m2.280s
This time I just strip the line ending, print out the line with the text I want to append, and then add the line ending back in. The original sed command is more than four times slower than this Perl one-liner, that's a massive improvement.
There are a couple of lessons here. The first is that when you're doing simple text processing, you may as well just use Perl one-liners. The idea that sed and awk are superior because they are smaller and simpler is not borne out by real-world results. (They may be faster for some things, but it's clearly no sure thing.) Perl is mature and is obviously highly optimized.
The second is that while premature optimization may be the root of all evil, when you're performing the same operation billions of times, even very small gains in efficiency can have huge impact. When the CPU on the server was pegged at 100% for a few days and the load average spiked at over 200, every gain in efficiency became hugely important.
If you want to dig into Perl one liners, the perlrun man page is one place to start.
Update: For the tests above, I used the default OS X versions of these tools. The versions were Perl 5.16.2, Awk 20070501, and some version of BSD sed from 2005.
Here are some other numbers, using GNU sed (4.2.2) and Awk (4.1.1), installed via Homebrew (rather than the old, default versions that are installed on OS X.) Perl still wins against Awk, but it's a lot closer:
$ time cat test.tsv | gawk '{print $0 "\t2"}' > /dev/null
real 0m23.503s
user 0m23.234s
sys 0m1.596s
$ time cat test.tsv | gsed 's/$/\t1/' > /dev/null
real 2m32.154s
user 2m31.332s
sys 0m2.014s
On the other hand, the latest GNU sed takes it on the chin. It's slower than Perl, Awk, and the old OS X default version of sed.
The difficulty of tracking police violence
Journalist D. Brian Burghart is compiling a database of police killings in the United States. He has a theory as to why it's up to him to compile this database:
The biggest thing I've taken away from this project is something I'll never be able to prove, but I'm convinced to my core: The lack of such a database is intentional. No government—not the federal government, and not the thousands of municipalities that give their police forces license to use deadly force—wants you to know how many people it kills and why.
He then goes on to explain all the ways people have attempted to thwart him in his effort compile such a database on his own.
The article is really interesting, and more importantly, he needs help from volunteers to fill in the details in his database. In addition to shining yet another bright light on the issue of race (and racism) in America, they also underscore the need for greater accountability for law enforcement, and databases like Fatal Encounters are one way to increase this accountability.
My favorite thing about President Obama
In an article about Presidential vacations, Ezra Klein makes this observation about the President:
Obama has limited patience for the idea that he should act like he's doing his job rather than just do his job. A Democratic political consultant once told me that the problem with President Obama is that he doesn't care to "get caught trying." That is to say, he doesn't put on a show of trying to get things done when he doesn't think the show will help get the thing done.
I know this gets him into all kinds of trouble (and behaving the same way has probably gotten me into all kinds of trouble as well), but I really wish more people were like this.
Policing based on fear can't work
I'm a bit fixated on cases where the personal advice one might give to a friend or family member does not align with the policy we should pursue (see this post). Sunil Dutta, a 17 year veteran of the LAPD, recommends offering no resistance when you are detained by police, if you want to prevent a bad outcome:
Even though it might sound harsh and impolitic, here is the bottom line: if you don't want to get shot, tased, pepper-sprayed, struck with a baton or thrown to the ground, just do what I tell you. Don't argue with me, don't call me names, don't tell me that I can't stop you, don't say I'm a racist pig, don't threaten that you'll sue me and take away my badge. Don't scream at me that you pay my salary, and don't even think of aggressively walking towards me. Most field stops are complete in minutes. How difficult is it to cooperate for that long?
That's the least nuanced paragraph in the piece, but I think it's worth talking about. This is good advice from one person to another. I've been pulled over a number of times and this is the strategy I've always followed. I don't want to go to jail or even get a ticket – what can I do to put the cop at ease so that I hopefully get the outcome I want?
My nephew is going to get his driver's license soon. This is the advice I'd give him. An altercation with a cop is a no win scenario for the other party.
On the other hand, it's completelly troubling to see a cop say this to the public. Basically, this cop is warning all of us that unless you can make a policeman feel safe, you're liable to be subjected to violence and potentially deadly violence until the policeman does feel safe. Bear in mind that in the vast majority of interactions between police and the public, the policeman is the only armed party. Even more troubling is the fact that the biases of the police officer bear greatly on how safe the cop feels, regardless of the situation, making it vastly more likely that members of some age and ethnic groups will be subjected to violence or mistreatment than others.
The policy question is, how do we create a system where interactions between the police and civilians are governed by more than the cop's feeling of being threatened. Maybe that means going back to partner policing. Maybe that means changing policy so that cops encounter armed citizens less often. It seems like a lot of cops shoot unarmed people out of fear that they are going for the cop's gun – maybe cops shouldn't carry guns as a matter of course. Whatever the solution is, serving notice to the public that if you scare us, we will hurt you can't be part of it.
We're seeing that on a mass scale in Ferguson, Missouri right now. An entire community has scared the police, and they're responding by inflicting harm on that community on a daily basis until it stops. Policing that's governed by fear can't be effective. For another approach, see Jason Kottke's post, Policing by Consent.
The ethics of Web experiments
Creating tools that facilitate online A/B experiments is a big part of my job. My team makes sure that we're collecting data as accurately as possible, and we also created a tool that aggregates the results of experiments and performs statistical analysis of them to insure that our analysis is valid. Needless to say, the controversy over experiments run by Facebook and OkCupid has been interesting to watch from a distance.
For some background on my involvement with Web experiments, you can read this post a member of my team wrote experiments at Etsy back in 2012. I think it holds up pretty well.
Last week Christian Rudder wrote about OkCupid's experiments on the OkTrends blog, in a provocative post entitled We Experiment On Human Beings! It was written in his inimitable style, with a pugilistic tone. OkCupid ran some pretty radical experiments, and Rudder isn't apologizing for any of them. He was the interviewed on NPR and refused to apologize for anything OkCupid did.
I am a big believer in iterating on products through experimentation. As I wrote a couple of years ago, quantifying user behavior and analyzing it is what liberates us to some degree from the realm of anecdote and opinion. That said, there's a reason why there are so many ethical guidelines in academia for experiments on human beings.
Writing at Kottke.org, Tim Carmody has the best argument I've read for why OkCupid's experiments were problematic. I think that everyone who's responsible for experimenting on the Web ought to read it and think about how it bears on the kinds of experiments they're running.
Experimentation is a singularly powerful tool for refining ideas and testing the viability of features on the Web, but it's also easy to abuse, especially in a social context. Fortunately, in the world of e-commerce, experiments are usually about making it easier to check out or testing out changes to search that hopefully make it easier for customers to find items they want to buy.
We've seen how a cavalier attitude toward user privacy on the part of Web companies has led to restrictions on cookies that make it more difficult to track user activity. These regulations restrict many kinds of bad behavior, but they also make it more difficult to do legitimate analsysis as well. I worry that a cavalier attitude about the ethics of experimentation will lead to regulations in that area that make it problematic to run any kind of Web experiment.
Many people are already suspicious of any kind of data-driven approach to problem solving. I'm as cynical as anyone about industry self-regulation. While it makes sense not to publicize experiments, we should discuss the kinds of experiments we run, and the role that ethical considerations play in expeirment design.
Trigger warnings for misogynists
I admit that when I initially saw trigger warnings at the beginning of articles, I was a bit baffled. That sense of bafflement was well-captured in this New York Times article from May, about requests to apply them to literary works in college courses. I've come to think that the appropriateness of trigger warnings depends entirely on the context in which they are used. If you want to know more about them, the Geek Feminism Wiki has a good writeup of how trigger warnings are used and the reasons for using them.
A couple of days ago, my colleague Lara Swanson posted about unsolicited feedback she received from dudes after her Velocity keynote, and I realized that there's definitely one context in which trigger warnings are underused. Clearly the men who gave the feedback would have benefitted from a trigger warning that might have prevented them from unexpectedly having a negative emotional experience while watching a conference talk.
With that in mind, here are some new trigger warnings speakers may want to use to protect men from having a damaging emotional response, and worse, taking it out on others.
- TRIGGER WARNING: Woman to speak authoritatively about topics not considered "girl stuff."
- TRIGGER WARNING: Content may force representatives of privileged groups to confront the existence of that privilege.
- TRIGGER WARNING: Speaker apt to apply metaphors men are unfamiliar with.
- TRIGGER WARNING: Speaker to extoll diversity for its own sake.
- TRIGGER WARNING: Speaker using whatever tone they like when giving this talk.
With these precautions, hopefully we can make conference talks a safe place for men.
Square one for managers
I pulled this from an op-ed by Arthur C. Brooks in the New York Times this weekend:
The Princeton psychologist Daniel Kahneman and his colleagues measured the "negative affect" (bad moods) that ordinary daily activities and interactions kick up. They found that the No. 1 unhappiness-provoking event in a typical day is spending time with one's boss (which, as a boss, made me unhappy to learn).
This is simply the nature of the relationship. As a manager, this is the ground on which your relationship starts, and it's up to you to build something better.
Related: Your Boss's Work-Life Balance Matters as Much as Your Own
Soccer doesn't explain globalization
In a fit of World Cup enthusiasm, I bought Franklin Foer's book How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization. The book is roughly 10 years old, and ages less well as you progress through it. The initial chapters on soccer history and racism in soccer feel fresh and are really interesting. Foer says in the introduction that the book progresses from bad news to good news, and unfortunately gets gets worse as you make your way through it.
Foer's argument that soccer will provide the organizing force that disrupts Islamic fundamentalism in Iran seems particularly regrettable with the benefit of hindsight. The good news for wannabe soccer fans is that the book argues effectively that Barcelona is a perfectly good fan for a dilettante to support. The team is owned by its supporters, serves as a foil for fascist Real Madrid, and plays an exciting style. If you want to cultivate a soccer rooting interest and are afraid of unwittingly making common cause with white nationalists, Barcelona is there to offer safe harbor.


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Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn Beta Starts This Month
By Matthew Bennett, Associate Editor
Posted on February 15, 2013 AT 08:12am
Posted on February 15, 2013 AT 08:12am
The beta for Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn is scheduled to begin later this month.
The first phase of testing will feature areas around Gridania with limited quests from the main story line and several side-quests available. An instanced dungeon designed for level 30 players will also be available for testing.
It will also include Full Active Time Events which appear at random while playing, to take part in the event all you have to do is go close to it. The beta will begin on February 25.
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LaFerrari vs McLaren P1 vs Porsche 918
Only a handful of people have driven all three of these incredible hybrid-hypercars. Charlie Turner is one of the lucky few
Posted: 02 May 2014
The Porsche weighs 1634kg - more than the P1 and LaFerrari, both of which sneak under 1400kg - and on the roads around the firm's Weissach proving grounds you're certainly more conscious of the impact of that extra mass on the 918's ride and braking. Even so, gone are the days where pursuing the outer limits of performance meant an appointment with the dentist the following week to replace lost fillings.
Maybe the most impressive thing about this trio is the way they make their blinding performance and engineering sophistication so accessible. Each swaddles its vast performance in a blanket so comforting that, honestly, you could imagine using any one of them as a daily driver, fuel bills and depreciation notwithstanding.


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19th March 2015
SNP suspends member who directed 'vile' anti-gay abuse at Scottish Tory leader 4
3:41 PM — An SNP member who subjected Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson to homophobic abuse on Twitter has been suspended from the party, Nicola Sturgeon has announced.
Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson slams homophobic Twitter troll
10:34 AM — Scottish Conservatives leader Ruth Davidson has slammed a Twitter troll for sending her homophobic abuse.
17th March 2015
Televangelist Pat Robertson: Treat your gay son like a drug addict 44
3:18 PM — US Christian evangelist Pat Robertson has advised a mother to treat her gay son like a drug addict.
Eric Pickles: Dolce and Gabbana are 'beyond offensive' but I'm against a boycott 21
1:58 PM — Senior Tory Eric Pickles has slammed Dolce and Gabbana for their "offensive" remarks about same-sex parents, but says a boycott is not the best way to proceed.
Christian Concern CEO 'applauds' Dolce and Gabbana, says Elton John is 'selfish' for having kids 78
12:55 PM — The head of Christian Concern has launched an outspoken attack on Sir Elton John and David Furnish.
Katie Hopkins: Gay community is being 'intolerant' over Dolce and Gabbana boycott 78
11:40 AM — Katie Hopkins has waded into the Dolce and Gabbana boycott row by accusing the gay community of intolerance.
12th March 2015
UK: Preacher who said gay man was a 'sinner' goes on trial
1:48 PM — A Christian preacher accused of making homophobic remarks while giving a sermon has denied the charges in court.
10th March 2015
Video: Busker drowns out homophobic preacher with 'Girls Just Want to Have Fun' 6
6:03 PM — A homophobic preacher who started shouting abuse to revellers at Sydney Mardi Gras met his match in a plucky young busker.
3rd March 2015
UK: Sacked nursery worker denies saying homosexuality 'is a sin' 43
5:09 PM — A Christian nursery worker, who was fired after giving a Bible to a lesbian colleague and refused to read books about same-sex couples to children, claims there is "state-sponsored hostility" to her religion.
26th February 2015
Cleric who linked being gay with 'cannibalism' due at Goldsmiths' Islamic society 90
5:10 PM — A cleric who previously was accused of linking homosexuality with the "sexual abuse of children, polyandry and cannibalism" has been invited to speak at the Islamic society of a leading London university.
19th February 2015
Tory activist brands feminists 'left-wing lesbo groupies' and 'cretins' 17
1:55 PM — A South Yorkshire Conservative Party activist has resigned over homophobic comments made on Twitter.
17th February 2015
Anti-gay Duck Dynasty star gets 'free-speech' award 65
6:48 PM — Phil Robertson, the Duck Dynasty star notorious for his anti-gay remarks, has been named the recipient of a free-speech award.
10th February 2015
Jeb Bush aide tweeted that burping in the gym is a way of saying: 'I'm not gay' 36
1:35 PM — A technology guru hired by Jeb Bush to help with his 2016 presidential run has been forced to delete several offensive tweets.
31st December 2014
DUP politician who blamed Hurricane Katrina on gays awarded MBE 41
4:59 PM — A DUP politician who blamed the spread of AIDS in Africa on gay people engaging in the "filthy practice of sodomy" is in the New Year honours list.
Scotland: Preacher warns of 'Biblical consequences' over equal marriage 33
11:08 AM — A Fife preacher has claimed the Scottish Government's legalisation of equal marriage will have "Biblical consequences".
23rd December 2014
Waitrose expresses no regret for donating to event run by café owner who preached anti-gay hatred in Uganda 96
2:11 PM — Waitrose has expressed no regret over the comments of a Cambridgeshire café owner who preached anti-gay hatred in Uganda and received a donation from the supermarket in order to provide Christmas lunches to lonely people.
Waitrose donated community fund to event run by café owner who preached anti-gay hatred in Uganda 17
12:59 PM — Supermarket chain Waitrose has given a share of its Community Matters fund to a Cambridgeshire café owner who preached anti-gay hatred in Uganda.
16th December 2014
Evangelical Alliance: Evangelicals are not 'homophobic, judgmental women-haters' 33
12:07 PM — Evangelical Christians have been caricatured into appearing as homophobic, a director of Evangelical Alliance has claimed.
9th December 2014
Cartoonist apologies for anti-gay tweet about Shrien Dewani
1:40 PM — A South African cartoonist has apologised for making anti-gay comments on Twitter in response to the Shrien Dewani verdict.
3rd December 2014
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for good athletes transitioning to boxing, is the chin the biggest factor?
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Re: for good athletes transitioning to boxing, is the chin the biggest factor?
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Was it Mitchell's chin? He didn't get knocked out cold, he just took a lot of solid punches.
Punches that he didn't have the experience to ride out or to get away from. Mitchell might have a weak chin, but taking solid, direct shots will affect anybody. He didn't just take one shot and collapse, he got hit with a lot of punches.
It's going to be difficult to transition from a sport where athletes plays "tense" for 2-4 second bursts, to a sport where the athlete needs to be "relaxed" while punching and avoiding being punched for 3 minutes at a time. There isn't much carry over from football to boxing other than both sports have contact.
He was fighting Banks who wasn't even a power puncher at Cruiserweight for Christ Sakes. Imagine if that had been Wlad in there last night punching him.
Mitchell had been hurt before by other light punchers. He has a Glass Jaw. This isn't up for debate people. How can you not see this?
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