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I purchased this pack in August 2010 for multi-day backpacking and peak bagging in New York. I packed it up for the first time and realized I needed it's bigger brother, the Cerro Torre 75:95 XL. The reason I needed the extra capacity was mainly because of the mandatory bear canister law the Adirondack High Peaks have. I sent the 65:85 back & received the 75:95 XL shortly after.
The pack material is literally bullet proof, I love it! Definitely the type of material that will last & last even after serious abuse. The sleeping bag compartment is deep and roomy. The sleeping bag compartment holds a 15 degree down bag stuffed in a compression sack, an inflatable mattress, an MSR Reactor stove and a Nemo Fillo pillow I just acquired (great investment)!
In the main compartment, as mentioned above, a store my bear can, fully loaded w several days worth of food and hygiene gear. Also in the main compartment, I have two water proof stuff sacks filled w my warming layers and extra pants. The pack has a generous hydration bladder pocket, but when loaded w a full bladder, sticks out and consumes a lot of precious space behind the bear can. The top lid has a top opening pocket and a small packet on the bottom side of the floating top. Both pockets are very useful, but could be a bit bigger.
The pack has two sleeping pad straps attached to the lower portion over the sleeping bag compartment. In the colder months, I tend to use a closed cell foam pad along with an inflatable mattress. The sleeping pad straps could definitely be made longer. I have to fight with them just to attach my Z-Rest. The two water bottle pockets on each side are deep and hold a 1 liter Nalgene quite well, but are a two man operation to use while on the move. There are two ice axe holders with trekking pole attachments built in. I think the trekking pole attachments are a great idea & I have enjoyed using them.
My gripes - During a four day trip a couple of weeks ago, the hip belt buckle would separate on its own while supporting approximately 65 pounds of gear while on the trail. This proved to be extremely annoying and disappointing. I was not able to stabilize the weight/load on my hips where it should be. After my trip, I contacted Lowe Alpine (great customer service!!) and they sent me a replacement for free. The replacement seems to work fine and Lowe Alpine is still working with me to assure that there are no other issues with the pack. I also really wish Lowe Alpine would incorporate hip belt pockets & a removable lumbar pack. The adjustable suspension takes time to dial in and get used to. After a month with the pack and about a weeks worth of time in the field, I am still adjusting to find my sweet spot.
So far I am very pleased with this pack and Lowe Alpine's customer service. I highly recommend giving this pack a chance when looking for a well built work horse. The four straps on the front of the pack are meant for compression, but are not really useful. There are many lash points in the same area, which make attaching a day pack or snowshoes very easy. Great pack!
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Chris, you say you bought the xl for more storage space. Actually the xl is more just designed for a longer torso, or taller man.
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I am having trouble with loosing the baby weight and i have no idea how to go about doing it successfully without effecting my supply. Please help anyone who has some tips on how i can go about doing this! Not being able to shed this weight is starting to make me depressed...
Need help! How to loose weight when BF?! diets/exercise?!
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I count calories. I was at 1700 and noticed a decrease in my supply. I have upped to 1900 and supply problems have vanished. I read somewhere that most women need at least 1800-2000 calories while breastfeeding
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I'm never going back to eating dairy! It was making me fat!
I drink coconut milk, chocolate almond milk, use vegan butter & vegan mayo, eat meat, rice, fruits & veggies. I feel significantly better and really think it's why I started losing weight again after I hit a plateau at about 2 months pp.
It's hard sometimes though to exhibit the self control.
I would stop eating cheese, cow's milk, milk processed bread & goodies again for a diet knowing what I know now about it.
I cut out dairy for LO 2 weeks ago, and I also lost 5 lbs since then! I am working out a ton (turbo fire and les mills pump), but I was doing that for two months prior and only lost 5 lbs in 2 months! I'm never eating dairy again either! Like PP I'm drinking a lot of almond milk, coconut yogurt, lean meats and tons of fruits and veggies. I also LOVE anything with peanut butter (all natural kind though - NOT jif, skippy etc...). My belly has definitely gotten flatter in the past two weeks (even my 3.5 year old DS told me today that my belly is flat now! Love that...haha!)
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Why, just why did it have to be North? I could care less if some celeb wants to name their child something ridiculous (apart from some serious sorrow on behalf of the poor little thing) but North has been a mn in my top BOY combo for such a long time. Oh well, if I ever get to use it I'm sure all the hype will have died down. Let's hope, anyway.W h a t ' s . . .
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I really like North for a boy. North West is such a joke! They don't even live in the North and it's Summertime!
Nori is seaweed, so I guess that is summery. What a gross thing to call your child though!
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This week's extra table will be a list of the most surprising results to Compu-Picks. It's worth noting that it actually includes a couple of losses: Purdue 17-20 at Notre Dame and North Texas 21-35 at Kansas St. The fact that they still register so high on this list shows just how far apart these teams are supposed to be.
I'm going to try and cycle through various potentially interesting outputs through the year; let me know if there's something in particular that you might like to see in future versions of this article.
Some thoughts on the list:
1) Please note that AA games are NOT counted for these ratings. This includes the schedule rankings. At some point later this year, I will post an adjusted schedule list that does account for the AA games, but they are not ready at this time. Please keep this in mind when looking at the schedule rankings, since a "true" schedule ranking would note these games.
2) One consistent theme that pops up when I've done these analyses the past few years is that Compu-Picks gives a lot more weight to schedule strength and dominance than does the BCS, and a lot less weight to simple W/L record and head to head. The same thing is true this time around.
3) As usual, I'm only posting the Compu-Picks ratings for the top and bottom teams (top 25 / bottom 25 this week), and will slowly expand the list as the season goes on. The reason I do this is that the teams at the very top and very bottom have largely separated themselves by now, while the teams on the next tier can largely be jumbled together.
4) Again this year I'm tracking the "Compu-Picks Curse" a bit more carefully. Below is the list of the teams that the system thought overrated each week (* means a bye/AA game or a game against someone else the model didn't like). So far teams have been exposed in six of seventeen potential games.
After week 7 (0-2): Florida, Notre Dame - no wins, but BYU came close at South Bend
After week 8 (3-2): Notre Dame, USC, Mississippi St, Georgia, and Ohio - Notre Dame had a very impressive win at Norman, Georgia beat a very good Florida team (though that game was UGLY), but USC lost to unranked Arizona, Ohio lost to 3-4 Miami(OH), and Miss St got annihilated at Bama.
After week 9 (0-6): Notre Dame, LSU, Georgia, Clemson, Ohio St, Louisville - Notre Dame came very close to losing to below-average Big East team, but for the purposes of this analysis, a win is a win. LSU lost... but if you think a close loss to the #1 team in the country is "getting exposed"... I'm sorry, but I just can't help you.
After week 10 (3-4): Georgia, Ohio St*, Nebraska, Louisiana Tech, Rutgers, Northwestern, Louisville, Toledo - 3 teams go down to unranked opponents (most notably Louisville getting smacked around by a now 5-5 Syracuse team), and Nebraksa and Louisiana Tech both came close to making it five.
5) One interesting aspect of this week's BCS rankings is that the SEC occupies spots four through nine. Since clearly Compu-Picks disagrees with the BCS on a number of these teams, I've created a breakout article specifically looking at six of them.
6) After another horrific showing by Illinois, they now drop below Colorado to grab the "worst AQ in the country" title. Though it's still pretty close, and could swing the other way just like it did for Virginia a couple weeks ago.
7) I'm going to say a special word about Arizona, because they really exemplify what Compu-Picks sees. In 1-A games, they're 5-4, which most people glance and assume they must not be worth noting. Except those nine games have been completely brutal, with the easiest of them being Colorado, Toledo and Washington (not terribly brutal home games, but when those are your three relative cupcake games, life kind of sucks). They faced five teams ranked in the BCS top 20 (#3 Oregon, #11 Oregon St, #14 Stanford, #18 UCLA and #19 USC), plus another (Oklahoma St) who can't be far off the top 25 (the AP Poll had them 31st and the Coaches Poll 29th for reference).
And what has Arizona done against this schedule? They went 1-4 against the BCS top 25, with two very close losses, and 4-0 against everyone else (including three blowout wins). Is that a top 25 resume? Maybe, maybe not, but it's silly that W/L record has been so emphasized and schedule so de-emphasized that they got no coaches' poll votes and almost no AP poll votes.
There's something inherently broken about how college football almost completely devalues schedule strength, and Arizona is a fantastic example of this.
8) The following teams are ranked materially higher by the model than the BCS: Alabama, Texas A&M, Oklahoma, Oregon St, USC.
In terms of power ratings, it's still easy to put Bama #1. They've been dominant in almost every game this year, and have done so against a very nasty schedule. Again, W/L doesn't rule over all, and their consistently high level of play is enough to elevate them here despite their loss.
Texas A&M clearly deserved a big bump from winning at Bama, and that's what they got. Unfortunately, they started out underrated, and that's still the case after their big bump. Nasty schedule, great results, and just 8th? That's just off.
Oklahoma remains a classic "Compu-Picks values things differently than voters" team. Blowout wins, losses only to elite opponents (and one of them was very close) = Compu-Picks likes them better than most.
The Washington loss was bad for Oregon St, but this team has still achieved a tremendous amount. Key wins at Arizona, BYU (convincingly) and UCLA, a home win vs ASU, and a solid showing (in defeat) at Stanford... there's a whole lot more heft to the resume than they're getting credit for.
Was USC overrated preseason? Clearly, but they've still done a lot, doing well against a pretty reasonable schedule. To this point, they've certainly done more than UCLA and Nebraska, two teams that out-rank them in the BCS. If you're looking for a good example of why "preseason bias" does NOT seem to be something stuck in the system, 2012 USC is a decent example.
They've gotten the label of "disapointment", which overrides their actual achievements and has artificially dampened their ranking (unless you can think of some alternative reason the coaches dropped them behind Louisville, Louisiana Tech and Rutgers, since that just looks crazy).
9) The following teams are ranked materially lower by the model than the BCS: Kansas St, Georgia, Ohio St (AP Rank 6th), Nebraska, Rutgers, Louisiana Tech, Louisville.
There's really nothing "wrong" with Kansas St's resume (other than that bad game against North Texas), they just haven't played at quite the same level as Bama and Oregon. And since this is a power rating where they rate well below those two, and I'm comparing to their BCS rank of 1st, they hit the "overrated" list.
Thanks to jumping over Alabama in the BCS rankings, Notre Dame returns to this list. A team that struggled against Purdue, Michigan, Stanford, BYU AND Pitt isn't a top 3 team. Their schedule is weak compared to the other top undefeated teams, and they haven't been anywhere near as dominant.
Georgia almost splits into two teams. "Good Georgia" beat up Mizzou, Vanderbilt, Ole Miss, Auburn and beat Florida. They're a legitimate top 5 team and national title contender. However, there's another team to consider. "Bad Georgia" struggled against Buffalo, barely held off Tennessee and Kentucky, and got blown out by South Carolina. "Bad Georgia" has no business being in the top 25, much less top 10, much less top 5.
And it's interesting that Georgia's ranking of 5th basically ignores "Bad Georgia." Four out of their ten performances this year showed a team that was a total fraud to be in the top ten, much less top five, and yet here they are, as if those bad games never happened. Very strange.
Ohio St's AP ranking is just a joke. They've faced a schedule far weaker than any top-ranked team outside of Louisville, and they haven't dominated it at all. Close wins over Cal, Purdue, Indiana, Michigan St... really? This is a top 10 resume? Their achievements are a dominating win over Nebraska and not losing. Their second-rated performance was a 12-point win at a mediocre Penn St team (who lost to Ohio AND Virginia). Their resume has absolutely no heft to justify their absurd ranking. This is a team that has benefitted massively from a down Big Ten and a really weak non-conference schedule (especially since their one AQ opponent, Cal, is way down this year). Against any kind of quality schedule, they'd have had at least one loss and very likely more.
Nebraska has two losses (one a blowout), barely held off Wisconsin, Michigan St and Northwestern, and their shining moments were a blowout over Arkansas St and winning by 14 against Michigan. They're not a top 20 team.
Rutgers being ranked is silly. Their schedule has been AWFUL, they've nevertheless managed to lose a game, and they still managed to struggle against Tulane, USF and Syracuse.
Louisiana Tech has played an absolutely awful schedule and lost (though a close loss) to the only decent team they've faced. They also barely held off bad Houston and Virginia teams. Not a top 25 team. And Vegas agrees, making them a HOME UNDERDOG to unranked Utah St.
Louisville is a total cakewalk schedule fraud. They got blasted by an utterly mediocre Syracuse team after barely holding off mediocre UNC, and USF teams as well as a bad FIU team and utterly atrocious USM team who did better against Louisville than they could against WKU, Marshall, Rice, UAB and SMU. Seriously, Louisville being ranked is a joke. They were a fraud last week and just as much of one this week even after their big shift in rank.
10) This isn't directly to do with the list, but here are some fun lists of results:
@ Stanford 21, USC 14
@ Washington 17, Stanford 13
USC 24, @ Washington 14
@ Miami 44, NC St 37
@ NC St 17, Florida St 16
Florida St 33, @ Miami 20
@ South Carolina 35, Georgia 7
@ Florida 44, South Carolina 11
Georgia 17, Florida 9
LSU 24, @ Texas A&M 19
Alabama 21, @ LSU 17
Texas A&M 29, @ Alabama 24
If you try to apply "head to head is the only thing that matters" logic to this list, your head will explode. You can tease out certain information from these lists (USC and Florida St had closer losses than wins, therefore they get a bonus; Washington and Miami had both games at home, therefore they get a demerit, etc.), but what it really does is highlight that each of these results was JUST ONE GAME. To properly evaluate a team, you need to evaluate the whole resume, not pretend that a single result means everything and the rest almost nothing just because of head to head "logic". That's why Compu-Picks doesn't give ANY special consideration to head to head results. You are what your resume says you are. Period.
Technical notes about the lists:
1) Conference ratings are straight averages of all of the teams in the league. There is no "central averaging" (like Sagarin does), or over-weighting the top teams, or anything like that. Such approaches would yield different numbers, and could potentially change the order of some of the leagues.
2) Games against AA teams are not counted. There are many good arguments both for and against counting such games (see this link for an interesting analysis of the issue). I have elected not to count these results in the Compu-Picks model. As is the case almost every year, this means that one or two especially surprising AA upsets don't make it into the numbers, skewing the results to a fair degree for a couple of teams. I believe that this is a more than acceptable tradeoff given the substantial issues that counting AA games would create, but you are certainly welcome to disagree with my decision on this matter.
3) As mentioned here, the purpose of this system is to make picks, not to create a list used for rankings. As such, I evaluate the system solely on the basis of how good a job it does making picks. I do not evaluate the system on the basis of whether or not it agreed with AP polls, BCS rankings, the BCS computers, or any other such list out there. In fact, the system has a long and established history of being substantially different than those sources. I am fine with these differences. To be honest, I publish these lists because I find them interesting and thought-provoking, and because I believe it is a good thing to introduce an approach that doesn't simply regurgitate the same avenues of thinking as you can find in most places.
4) The system is noisy, especially earlier in the year. This is why I start with only the top and bottom few, and slowly expand the list. While I believe that the numbers are reasonable, I certainly accept that they're not perfect. If you believe that a specific team is over- or under-ranked, you may well be right. I bring this up because if you're going to criticize the system for being wrong about a team, I'd appreciate it if you explain why you think the system is substantially wrong, rather than just marginally so (if it's just one or two slots off, especially well before the end of the year, I'd consider that well within a reasonable error range).
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LOS ANGELES -- Playing without star center Andrew Bogut, the Golden State Warriors came into Los Angeles and stole a 114-110 victory over the previously unbeaten Clippers. "It's just a great win for us. A great win for us," Golden State head coach Mark Jackson said. "I'm extremely proud of my guys." Carl Landry came off the bench for Golden State to punish the Clippers for 23 points and 10 rebounds. After trailing by double figures in the fourth quarter, the Clippers tied the game in the final two minutes. "We don't quit," Jackson said. "I've been part of teams when say 'It's not our night. Things aren't going our way,'" Jackson said. "But we gutted it out. We defended and we executed." Chris Paul cut the lead to one, and Stephen Curry split on a pair of free throws, giving the Clippers a chance to tie. But as he made a left-handed lay-up, Curry stepped over and took the charge. "We had to find a way to contain him," Jackson said. "We had to trust our defensive princip...
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February 23rd, 2012 #1
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This is a color comp for a piece of fan art I'm working on. I want to display it at SPECTRUM LIVE in May, so it has to look its best. Any thoughts or suggestions you have are appreciated.
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Nice! It could use more drama though imo. Link and Ganondorf look like they're just casually talking/Ganondorf giving Link mentor advice instead of FINAL BATTLE!declarations of ruling the world with dramatic hand gestures and determined looks etc. Kinda nit picky but Zelda's left eye looks smaller than her right eye, also liking the colors and Zelda's portrait.
Is that lens-flare dot the triforce? It's so small, is it supposed to be far away or in front of Ganondorf? Is this piece supposed to be like baseball/trading card size or bigger?
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February 24th, 2012 #3
I really like the look of zelda. She looks like a young princess.
Can you give us more info like why you chose a montage design? And like Kya mentioned, what is supposed to be happening here because its a bit dull?
I want to go to spectrum live but dang it would cost so much to fly there for it! Where you from jeremy?
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Very hard to read as the triforce right now and looks a bit insignificant composition-wise. It might be a cool idea to work the triforce into the Nouveau design.
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Another note: Like Sloth mentioned you could work the triforce into the nouveau design, but I noticed that Zelda doesn't have any hint of it in her jewelry, it is part of the royal family's symbol, unless those are the triangles in her necklace? Or you haven't added it yet?
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Thanks guys, I've been to busy with my other stuff to get on with this piece, for now. I'll have to pick it back up later. Anyway I chose to go with a montage because I wanted to fit all the 3 characters in there, but wanted to get a lot of detail on Zelda especially. And yeah I agree it needs a little more clarity as to whats going on. I wanted Link and Ganon to be in the moment of meeting for the first time before their battle. And yeah, thats the tri-force in the background on top of a hill of rubble/ruins. A lot of it needs some work, I know. I'll have to get back to it.
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Stern Fines Gregg Popovich, Spurs For Sitting Stars
By: Kyle Caso @3_pointz
Imagine you pay $400 to go see your favorite basketball team play and the top four players on that team are on a plane heading home. I'm sure you'd be pretty upset. Thursday November 29th the Spurs faced of against the Heat missing they're top four players "Parker,Manu,Green and Duncan" and started Patrick Mills, Nando De Colo, Tiago Splitter, Matt Boner, Boris Diaw. Now that's like a throwing a 7 year old into a shark tank to be eaten alive. It was Gregg Popovich's decision to send his top four players home while the Spurs took on the Heat who are 10-0 at home so far.
To the entire worlds surprise the the Spurs actually made a game out of it. Splitter, Neal and De Colo combined for 53 points along with James Anderson acting as a spark plug in the third quarter. There was a total of 27 lead changes in the game and the Spurs had the game in there hands in the fourth. They went up by 5 with 2 minuets left to go in the 4th. From that point on Lebron James took control of the game scoring a bucket and getting 2 assist one of which was to Ray Allen who had 20 points and that shot gave them the lead with 20 seconds left to go. The Heat ended up winning by 5 points.
November 30th friday afternoon David Stern fined the Spurs organization $250,000 for sitting there top players. Gregg Popovich claims that he was doing whats right for the team and that it was the fourth game in five nights and he was gona rest his players for the Memphis game.
There are two sides to this story. First off, Gregg Popovich could have rested his guys the night before against the Orlando Magic "who are marked as one of the worst teams in the league" but he decided to rest his guys against the defending Champion Miami Heat. Is it that he felt they couldn't beat the Heat with there full squad? i doubt it. The Spurs are amongst the top teams in the West. Plus why should the Spurs have to play 4 games on the road in 5 nights?
Gregg had the right to give his players a breather that night. Maybe it was the best thing to do, Maybe he should have rested one of those guys and not all of them but in Gregg Popovich's defense, there's nothing in the rule book that say's you can't rest your players at any time of the year.


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Friend: Chiefs LB, slain girlfriend 'seemed fine'
Attempts to reach various members of Perkins' family in Austin, Texas, were unsuccessful.
Neighbors in the newly built Kansas City subdivision where the couple had lived since April were stunned by Saturday's violent events.
Kristen VanMeter, 31, lives near the couple and said also she had taken community-college courses with Perkins. VanMeter said the couple threw "a lot of parties" but said she heard nothing unusual the morning of the killing.
"It's a surprise," she said. "There had to of been something that triggered it."
Belcher's mother, who was staying with the couple, called 911 after her son shot Perkins. Snapp said 911 tapes aren't public records in Missouri.
Shawn Martin, vice president of the neighborhood homeowners association, said she wasn't aware of any problems that preceded the shooting.
She described the parties at the home Belcher and Perkins shared as "nothing more than any other young couple" would have.
After having the baby, Perkins was taking the fall semester off school. York said Perkins planned to return in January and wanted to become a teacher.
Police said Belcher's mother was living with the couple, but York said she just made frequent visits, sometimes lasting a couple weeks at a time. She doesn't know who will care for the baby now.
"Jovan is pretty laid back and calm and collected," York said. "And they just seemed really happy around each other, and I just don't understand where things went wrong."
York said the only other stress Perkins mentioned was whether Belcher would stay with the Chiefs.
"She was a really good person to be around and a lot of fun," York said. "She was somebody you could call when you were down and she would talk you through it. She would lift you back up and make you feel happy again if you were sad or upset."


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Egg transportation is EASY! You break 'em first and put them in a leak proof container. My brother did this and two hundred miles later on a motocycle the yolks were still intact! You could buy some at the end of a day and break them in to your nagel water bottle.
You could travel all over the world using the 'BMWMOA Anonymous book' as a cheaper or free sleeping arrangement.
I have heard couchsurfing folks to be too apt to want to party (I have no first hand experience).
Remember stuff fits inside stuff. Our cutlery fits inside our lidded coffee mugs, our stove sits inside our pan. People often balk at taking a larger pan but what if it is stuffed with something else you need?
In the end you don't need much at all as everyone who has done this can atest. I traveled all of the USA and down to Panama in 1976 for nine months with no cooking gear, no tent, no nothing except a small valise I could carry in one hand. When I flew back to England via Nassau and Luxemborg I stepped off the train in my home town with my very small bag in hand and looked for a taxi. I knew the driver and he couldn't beleive the bag was all I had, plus he took me the 2 miles home for free! Along the way I went through many T shirts and socks and underwear, but still had the same pants and shoes until I got to London, it was raining and I bought new shoes. Meeting people was the best. I had free rooms and food, free haircuts, even free transportation after I sold the VW bug I was driving at the time in Honduras. I got a free ride on a boat to the Isles Tres Marias. I got a free airplane ride back to Guatemala. I got a FREE ride from Costa Rica to Panama in exchange for the driver practising is english language. I got a lot of stuff but gave too. I helped garden, including moving trees. I washed cars, fixed stuff. Once I stayed in a couples house and took them to the airport in their car, leaving me with the car and house!
Someone said 'time' is valuable, it's so true. If you are flexible with your time good things can happen. Often you have to hang around for an opportunity to transpire or come to fruition. I've met people at work, grocery stores, gas stations, anywhere, and they have asked me to stick around till they get off. Being young helped, being from England helped. Often I was 'showed off' to friends as a curious prize, that was okay it became part of the trip.
I always had money, plenty in fact, but was VERY thrifty, it too became part of the trip. I was always clean and well groomed. I never did understand the whole grubby traveler look. Even now I know many motorcyclists who think they should not shave on a trip or wash the bike. It's like a badge of courage or 'look at me I'm awesome' thing. It was much more interesting to show up with a hand bag and fresh face and announce I had just come from an 11 country trip and had the passport stamps and dates to prove it!
I'm older and wiser and married now. We still travel on the cheap. We wash ourselves and wash our bikes. We carry more stuff.
We like to host travelers at our home. To qualify you must be self sufficient, be clean, have money (not spend it just have it) and know how to be organized and be flexible. Showing up at short notice is OK, hanging around for weeks is not. When you stay anywhere you should have an exit date/time and let the host know up front. It's not a good idea to show up on holidays.
Just a few tips from experience, thanks for reading, I enjoyed looking back.
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80 CONVERSION, ZEILINGER, 25-19: The kick snatches a losing bonus point for the visitors. The final whistle goes and the match ends 25-19 to the defending champions. WP will not be happy with the second half however as they threw away several opportunities to earn a four try bonus point and in the process put the match to bed. A habit of poor second half performances seems to be creeping into the Cape team and their coaching staff will need to fix this problem if they are going to defend their title.
80 TRY, SHARKS, COOPER, 25-17: Trhe Sharks have the final say as the replacement hooker dives over from close range.
79 The Sharks have the final role of the dice as the have a five metre scrum which could be the last movement.
77 Van der Heever makes another break but once again the player running a support line knocks the ball on. That may have been final chance to earn the allusive bonus point.
75 The Sharks have found an extra gear in both attack and defense in the final quarter.
73 Another handling error bring a premature end to a WP attack as the Cape side search for am illusive bonus point.
71 WP produce a huge scrum on the Sharks five metre line, earning a penalty. The lineout is set and a maul should follow.
68 CONVERSION, ZEILINGER, 25-12: The kick is made quickly, is the come back on.
67 TRY, SHARKS, BOTES, 25-10: A juggling act occurs on the WP line, including a Sharks player head-butting the ball over the line before Carr fumbled and Botes dived on the ball to score a very strange try.
66 The men in black look to speed up the tempo of the game. Advantage after advantage is given to the Sharks, but still they struggle to breach the defense.
64 Solid WP defense guides the gig ball running Deysel into touch five metres out. The pride in defense is clear to see.
63 The contest has really opened up as the Shark storm back onto attack.
61 CONVERSION, VAN ASWEGAN, 25-5: The replacement fly-half chips over to add the extras.
60 TRY, WP, APLON, 23-5: The Sharks try seems to have poked a sleeping beast. Aplon gets his hands on the ball, glides through the gap and steps the full-back will ease to go under the poles,
58 Zeilinger is off target with the conversion, but the try should lift the visitors heading into the last quarter of the match.
57 TRY, SHARKS, MVOVO, 18-5: The Sharks are back in the opposition 22, where they have spent the majority of this second half and finally the defense cracks. Mvovo is over in the corner and the Sharks are on the board.
54 WP finally work their way back into Sharks territory and look threatening, but the Sharks survive and a kicking dual ensues.
52 James has just been replaced, and his replacement starts with a poor kick straight to van den Heever. The WP wing calls the mark and clears to safely, relieving any pressure.
50 The men in black are really struggling at the set piece as their scrum is going backwards and the lineout are proving to be very messy. The positive for the Sharks though is that they have been playing in the right area of the field.
47 The visitors earn a penalty as the defender didn't role away in time. James kicks for the corner as the men from Natal feel they need a try to claw their way back into the encounter.
45 A series of high kicks ends well for the Sharks as they are given the feed to a mid-field scrum.
42 PENALTY, WP, COLEMAN, 18-0: WP start the second spell hot on attack as Carr slices straight through the heart of the Sharks defence. The Defenders, under pressure, give away a penalty right in front and Coleman stretches the lead.
41 Coleman starts the second half with the drop kick.
40 WP have a lineout on the halfway line which should be the last attacking opportunity of the half. The maul is well defended and the whistle goes for half time. An intense half of rugby comes to an end where the hosts have been far more enterprising with ball in hand and the results speak for themselves on the scoreboard. WP have however thrown away a couple good leads that they have taken into the break already this season and it will be interesting to see if they have learnt from their mistake.
39 Van den Heever fumble a kick at the back, if he had taken it cleanly it would have been an interesting race as nobody was in front of the flyer.
37 After surviving a test of their defensive system, WP go back on attack. A handling error surrenders possession though and James gains a great deal of territory with a raking kick for the visitors.
35 The Sharks take a penalty quickly, desperately trying to score a try before the break. The WP defense holds though and after several phases and actually losing ground on attack, the Sharks concede a penalty at the breakdown.
31 The Sharks counter from their own half for the first time and immediately look dangerous. A cheeky chip over the top by Butch James causes a scramble in the WP goal, which has been referred to the TMO. The result is a five metre scrum to the Sharks.
29 A technical penalty goes the way of the visitors who will be thankful for the breather. They slow down play and bang a good kick into touch.
27 A clever chip ahead could have resulted in another try, but the ball wins the race to touch and the Sharks get their hands back on the ball.
26 The Sharks continue to kick through James, but the hosts are winning the kicking battle and are chasing their kicks with much more intensity.
24 CONVERSION, COLEMAN, 15-0: Coleman gets it right this time and Province extend their lead.
23 TRY, WP, KOLBE, 13-0: The WP backs are loving playing with the ball in hand and Kolbe will not be denied this times as he finishes in the corner.
22 WP on the other hand are using the ball when they get it and are posing plenty of questions to the Sharks defence.
21 The Sharks are going to the boot more and more often in an attempt to control territory.
19 A player is tackled in the air off the restart and WP are given a penalty. They set the lineout back in the Sharks territory but Knock the possession on.
17 Coleman misses the conversion, but the hosts will be very happy with their start.
16 TRY, WP, DE JONGH, 8-0: Another wave of attack by the hosts results in a decision going up to the TMO for a possible try in the corner. The reply shows that de Jongh has finish brilliantly and scores the first try of the match.
14 James gets slow ball and looks to find the corner, but the bounce takes in over the try-line and it is cleaned up by Kolbe. WP take the 22 drop out quickly and Coleman finds open spaces behind the Sharks.
13 The Sharks captain is milking a push in the face after some handbags at a rug. The result is a penalty to the visitors who decide to set the lineout just inside the WP 22.
11 After being pinned down in their own 22, the cool head of James clears to touch.
9 The WP captain does well to effect a turnover at the breakdown, allowing his backs to counter. The knock-on comes from Aplon and the scrum will slow things down.
7 Turnovers are coming from both sides and counter-attacks are the flavour of the opening exchanges. A penalty goes the way of the Sharks and James hits the upright with his attempt. No harm done as far as Province are concerned.
4 Aplon swoops on a loose ball and is away, he passes to Kolbe who dives for the corner, but the TMO is called upon. The TMO says the player was out and the try is not scored.
3 WP carry it through a few phases before clearing their lines after the kick off.
2 PENALTY, WP, Coleman, 3-0: Van den Heever makes a break directly off the kickoff. Lazy running by the Sharks gives Coleman a chance to open the scoring. The strike is good and WP hit the front.
1 The final match of the round is under way as James kicks off.
Cool and still conditions greet the players. There will be no excuse for poor handling as the weather lends itself to attacking rugby.
The Sharks have decided to go with experienced heads for this clash. Butch James starts at fly-half and will earn his 5oth Currie Cup cap for the Sharks. Western Province had a late change at hooker with Ntubeni coming in for the injured Liebenburg.
Welcome to Newlands where the defending champions take on the log leaders in the final match of the fifth round of the 2013 Currie Cup. The winner will lead the competition at the halfway mark of the competition. To add further spice to this occasion, it is a repeat of last year's final, so the visitors will be eager to exact some revenge.
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Mike Vick Would Be Wise Not To Get Complacent.
Posted August 28, 2013
Even though the competition may be over, it doesn't mean the evaluations are. Here after Vick has been named the starter we began to see a few of Mike Vick's old bad habits resurface. The rushed bad throw that led to an interception, (that's two weeks straight now) the holding onto the ball too long, ( Mike rarely got the ball out after three seconds when he did he was decisive and accurate like on the Cooper TD, but when he didn't he was rushed, sacked, and threw a horrible interception) and he fumbled on play that thankfully Brown recovered. Say what you will, but this offense for whatever reason moves faster with Foles under center. It has every time he's been out on the field regardless of the talent he's been playing with or against. It has everything to do with the quarterback. A few of the sacks and hurries taken by Vick are strictly on him working too hard to make the big play rather than taking what the defense give him. Mike isn't being asked to do everything in this offense. He's being asked to play within it, so it will be on him if his old ways creep back in and he find himself sitting on the sidelines because of it.
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In a letter to the Wall Street Journal a short time ago, the French ambassador to the US wrote, "Opposing a military intervention in Iraq at a time when U.N. inspections were working and Iraq was not an imminent threat to peace was a decision my country is proud of, one based on principles and shared by many other nations. The behavior of my country and the French diplomatic approach toward Iraq deserve respect, not insults or innuendoes."
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The Los Angeles Guitar Quartet was in the house, and boy can they play!
The LAGQ came to town for multiple concerts, both with your RPO and without, and master classes at the Eastman School of Music. Much to our surprise and pleasure, they agreed to appear on Backstage Pass. We got ready.
Government and the arts
This Spring, there will be Congressional meetings and hearings about how the arts and music benefit the economy and education. What do you think Congress can do to bolster the arts? Or conversely, should they do anything?
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By the time our current Membership Campaign is over, I will have worked for three and a half pledge drives at WXXI. Every time we finish a pledge drive, I find myself thinking the same thought: doing this should be mandatory for any college student trying to make a living in the arts.
What music is good music?
I like to abide by Duke Ellington's mantra that "There are two kinds of music: good music and bad music." But what defines good music? Let's consider some pieces of "new" music--are they good or not?
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Mozart turned 250, and you couldn't turn around without banging your shins on another recording of Eine Kleine Nachtmusik. Mendelssohn turns 200 and...not so much.
When music is work
Aaron Copland's book "What to Listen for in Music" invites music fans of all types to consider listening to music on multiple levels and multiple planes. Last weekend at a concert, I caught myself listening on just one level, and it got me thinking how others listen.
Musical Inauguration Thoughts
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I have an addiction: The Detroit Tigers. But that's not what I'm writing about today, rather I shall write about another addiction I have: I peruse musician info pages on orchestra websites. I mostly want to find out what else orchestra musicians do besides play in orchestra. Sometimes I'm dissappointed ("I like to go to chamber music concerts" really? That's all?). Sometimes it's enlightening ("I compete in triathalons" way to go!).


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HOUSTON (AP) — John Reynolds and the four others aboard the Nite Owl weren't worried when the thunderstorms made it impossible for the commercial fishing boat to return back to shore. They'd seen this kind of weather before.
They did what they normally would, tying the boat to an oil rig off the Texas Gulf Coast and going to sleep. But early Friday morning, "a rogue wave, a freak wave or something hit the side of the boat," Reynolds said.
"It just collapsed the cabin ... where the captain sleeps," he said in a telephone interview Sunday as the U.S. Coast Guard announced it was calling off the search for the other four people who were aboard the Nite Owl. "When it hit, it tore the whole top of the boat off."
The captain was sent overboard, and within two minutes, the 50-foot vessel sunk. One crew member tried to reach the captain, while Reynolds and the two others saw a life raft. Reynolds was the only one who reached it.
He then spent about two hours floating in the Gulf of Mexico before the Coast Guard rescued him.
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"I'm just sorry they didn't find anybody. I wish all the guys would have been in the life raft with me," Reynolds told The Associated Press.
The Coast Guard has identified three of the missing fishermen as Don Windom, Duoc Dan Nguyen and Jamie Esquivel. Larry Moore, the boat's owner, identified the fourth missing man as Charles Patrick, the vessel's captain.
What became a harrowing journey for Reynolds and the four other men began Thursday when the Nite Owl left Port Bolivar, located near Galveston, for what was to be an eight to 12 day fishing trip, said Moore, who runs M.L.T. Seafood Inc. in Golden Meadow, La. The Nite Owl is the company's only fishing boat.
Reynolds, 56, from Gaston, Ala., said that after the boat was hit by the "freak wave," he and three other crew members who had been sleeping below deck, climbed upstairs, pushing debris out of the way. Realizing Patrick was missing, they began calling out for him. Patrick answered them back once, although they couldn't see him.
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Animals exposed to the smell of starchy foods failed to benefit from calorie restriction. Thinking about sweet candy may well screw up the blood. I know nothing. Just that this precedent exists in other studies.
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Plymouth have handed trials to former Barnet keeper Jake Cole and French midfielder Ladjie Soukouna.
Cole, 25, began his career at QPR before being loaned to Hayes, AFC Wimbledon, Farnborough Town, Oxford and Barnet.
The keeper signed permanently for the Bees after being released from Loftus Road, becoming their player of the year in his first season.
Twenty-year-old Soukouna is from French club US Creteil-Lusitanos and comes recommended to Peter Reid.
Soukouna previously had a trial at Brighton last April.
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SOCHI – When Canada and Sweden meet at the Bolshoy Ice Dome later today in the men's hockey final, it will be the first time teams from different continents have met in the gold-medal game since 1994 in Lillehammer — when the final was also between Canada and Sweden.
The last Olympic tournament without NHL players, it is most memorable for how it ended. Sweden won 3-2 in a shootout, a goal in the fourth round by Peter Forsberg followed by a save by Swedish goaltender Tommy Salo off Paul Kariya sealing Sweden's first gold medal in hockey.
On the eve of the rematch, every Swedish player asked about the 1994 game mentioned the shootout first.
"It's one of the greatest memories I have growing up, especially from the Olympics, and maybe something that made me really want to pursue a career in hockey," said forward Carl Hagelin, 25. "I was at my neighbour's house, my family and his family. I just remember Sweden winning in the shootout, Forsberg scoring, and Paul Kariya missing on Tommy Salo."
Swedish veteran Daniel Alfredsson also remembered the shootout "more than anything." "I was at home with my parents, watching on TV, and we were just jumping up and down once Salo made the save on Kariya."
"That penalty shot, Forsberg. I was watching at home," said forward Nicklas Backstrom, 26. "You grew up watching that penalty shot."
Swedish goalie Henrik Lundqvist, who will start for Sweden today, helped Sweden win the Olympic tournament at Torino in 2006. He appreciated the chance to play alongside many of his childhood heroes at the Games in Italy.
"SALO's save and Forsberg's move are probably what I remember the most," he said. "That's a great memory for Swedish hockey. And a cool thing there is that a lot of the guys that were on that team, I got the opportunity to play with them in 2006 and win another gold. That was very special for me."
Lundqvist, 31, said the national team's success spurred on his generation of players.
"I was 12," he said. "My dream was already there. It had started already when I was six, seven, eight, watching the national team play. But obviously '94, that's a great memory, watching it on TV, and it was definitely an inspiration.
"Obviously the national team always played a big part in development. Especially in the Olympics; it's a big stage, a lot of people watch it, and they get interested in hockey. The excitement around it, the energy there feeds a lot of young players. They want to go practise, and be in that position themselves. I think it's inspiring. That's how it started for me, watching the national team on TV playing in the big championships. That's why I wanted to play hockey."
The 2014 Sweden team has a direct link to the 1994 squad in head coach Par Marts, who was an assistant coach for the team in Lillehammer, though he prefers to focus on the future: "Of course I remember it, but I'm a dreamer so I rather look ahead for new dreams than talking about old memories."
Danny Dube, who served as an assistant coach for Canada in 1994, said the past was not quite as easy to forget for Canadian goalie Corey Hirsch: "I know it was hard. Corey Hirsch had a tough time to recuperate from that mentally," he said.
Dube said that because Hirsch used a stand-up style of goaltending not conducive to the shootout, the plan had been to swap him for their No 2 goalie Manny Legace, if that eventuality ever arose. It did, but Legace had taken a shot on the knee at practice the day before the final, and was on crutches for the rest of the tournament.
"We never changed goalies for the shootout," said Dube. "The rest is history."


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Processor speed: 515 MHz
Print languages: HP PCL 6, HP PCL 5, HP Postscript level 3 emulation, direct PDF printing v 1.4
Memory, standard: 512 MB
Memory, maximum: 1 GB
Paper handling input, standard: 100-sheet multipurpose tray, 250-sheet input tray, 50-sheet Automatic Document Feeder (ADF), automatic two-sided printing and copying, optional third 500-sheet paper and heavy media tray; 250-sheet face-down output bin
Paper handling output, standard: 250-sheet face-down output bin
Duplex printing: Automatic (standard)
Envelope input capacity: Up to 10 envelopes
Media sizes supported: Multipurpose tray: A4, A5, B5 (JIS), B6 (JIS), A6, postcard (JIS), 16K, envelopes (C5, C6, DL, B5); tray 2: A4, A5, B5 (JIS), 16K; tray 3: A4, A5, B5 (JIS), 16K; automatic two-sided printing unit: A4, A5, B5 (JIS), 16K
Media types: Paper (plain, preprinted, letterhead, prepunched, bond, recycled, colour, light, intermediate, heavy, extra heavy, rough, glossy, heavy glossy, tough), transparencies, labels, envelopes, card stock
HP ePrint capability: No
Connectivity, standard: FIH port, open EIO slot, one external USB host port, one Hi-Speed USB 2.0 device port, two additional internal USB ports, HP Jetdirect Gigabit Ethernet print server
Connectivity, optional: HP Jetdirect Print Servers and HP Secure High Performance Hard Disk Drives. For more information on available HP networking solutions visit http://www.hp.com/go/jetdirect
Compatible operating systems: Microsoft® Windows® XP Home, XP Professional, Server 2003, Server 2008; Windows Vista®; Mac OS X v10.3, v10.4, v10.5
Power: 110-volt input voltage: 115 to 127 VAC (+/- 10%), 50/60 Hz (+/- 2 Hz); 220-volt input voltage: 220 to 240 VAC (+/- 10%), 50/60 Hz (+/- 2 Hz)
Power consumption: 652 watts maximum (active/printing); 666 watts maximum (active/copy or scan); 72.2 watts maximum (Sleep 1), 18.1 watts maximum (Sleep 2); 87.4 watts maximum (ready); 0.84 watts maximum (off); Typical Electricity Consumption (TEC): 6.070 kWh/Week*
Energy efficiency: ENERGY STAR® qualified
Operating temperature range: 10 to 30º C
Operating humidity range: 20 to 60% RH
Minimum dimensions (W x D x H): 515 x 519 x 560.5 mm
Weight: 47.6 kg
Package weight: 53.2 kg
Cable included: No
Warranty: 1 Years Limited Warranty (Next Business Day On-Site)