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If you're looking to play an open course with a parkland feel that winds around water and trees, Santa Rosa Golf and Beach Club course has it all.
Santa Rosa Golf, a semi-private club, has a par 72 course that offers a challenge for every skill level or handicap.
"We are unique in that we're not built in a development," said Carter Murchison, director of Golf Operations. "You are playing privately. A lot of people like playing here because they are not playing through homes and hotels."
Santa Rosa Golf Club has two very distinct layouts within the course.
The front nine is more of a "links" style course, while the back nine is more of "parkland" type course.
The front nine is very open with holes three through five, winding around a complex of dunes and comes within just a few hundred yards of the Gulf of Mexico, along County Road 30-A.
Holes four and five play north and south. As a matter of fact when teeing off from No. 5, the
As for the back nine, the golfer will see more trees, ponds and nature — that "parkland feel," Murchison said.
All the water and nature, "gives you that calming effect, that we don't always have playing golf," he jokingly said.
The course boasts some of the only elevation changes in the area and takes the golfer from the Clubhouse to the Gulf and back through the natural areas.
"We have some nice hills and elevation," along the course, Murchison said.
"We've done a lot of work on the course," he said. Murchison said they have cut down about 200 trees and a lot of shrubbery. "We've done a lot of clearing … but we've got a lot of trees."
He said they needed to lose some trees to open up the course to sun and air for the grass.
The course, which has been open since 1969, is designed for walking with little distance between greens and tees, with holes 9 and 18 ending up at the clubhouse.
In addition to 18 holes of golf, Santa Rosa Golf has a practice facility that is open to members as well as the public. Golfers can come and hit balls for $16 an hour.
If you need help with your swing, Murchison has an indoor training and learning facility, The Golf Academy, that opens up to the driving range. Golfers are able to stand inside and hit out to the range while being videoed for teaching purposes.
Santa Rosa Golf is a member-owned club and members are allowed to walk and play. There are numerous options for members to play in men's and ladies groups.
"It's a very casual atmosphere here," Murchison said, noting folks like to sit out on the porch at the clubhouse before and after play.
However, the golf course is open to public play.
During the summer, the majority of those that play are non-members, whereas in the Fall, Winter and Spring it's about 80 percent membership play.
"Our membership here is a lifestyle, because of the beach and golf," said Sarah Brazwell, membership and marketing director.
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At a called finance meeting Aug. 27, Mayor Pro Tem and Finance Chairman Loretta Lipsey presented the 2014 budget for the city. The budget and millage rate will be officially adopted at the Oct. 7 council meeting.
The city's budget is $2,016,923, and its millage rate is 9.5.
According to handouts at last week's meeting, Fire Chief Max Wood asked for an increase of $14,500, the police department an increase of $11,000, and street department an increase of $14,000.
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Robert Lee Graham pled guilty Feb. 26 in Jones County Superior Court to his most recent offense of possession of meth and received 25 years with the first 180 days in Jones County LEC suspended upon entry into state residential substance abuse treatment center. His sentence is to run concurrent with all existing sentences.
Assistant District Attorney Gregory Bushway said Graham was arrested June 27, 2012, while investigators were working a drug case on another individual who happened to be living with Graham.
"He was not cooperative, and meth was found at the house," Bushway said.
Graham was in court Feb. 7 on a habeas motion asking for a retrial of his 2009 case. That conviction resulted in a 30-year sentence and is the reason he is on parole. The prosecutor said, following last week's plea, the habeas case was dismissed with prejudice and cannot be refiled.
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Electronic cigarettes are becoming more prevalent in Aiken as people are switching from smoke to water vapor.
Most recently, Chris Harden and Ric Castagna started Shooting Star Vapors in June. Harden has set up a display at Aiken's Finest Auto Care and Exhaust, which he also owns.
A recent study shows that approximately 8 percent of smokers tried electronic cigarettes in 2012, Harden said. After he successfully dropped tobacco products with this reusable form of nicotine delivery device, he decided to get into the business himself.
Harden said that he started smoking when he was 14 years old and struggled to quit. He was introduced to e-cigarettes at a car show, and said that since he quit smoking regular cigarettes, he feels a lot healthier.
"It's a miracle worker," he said. "I tried so many methods to quit but couldn't. This was a life saver."
The liquid that goes into the electronic cigarettes are made of propylene glycol, vegetable glycerine, flavoring and nicotine, Harden said. He added that cigarettes emit more than 4,000 different chemicals.
Harden said these products will not be sold to anyone under 18, and he does not recommend e-cigarettes to people who do not smoke.
Harden said e-cigarettes are for people who are looking for a healthier alternative to tobacco products and that the nicotine levels vary in the liquid. Over time, someone using an e-cigarette can ween themselves off of nicotine by slowly decreasing the amount that they take in.
He said, at this time, there have been no long-term studies conducted to confirm if e-cigarettes are healthier but the short-term conclusion is that they're better than using tobacco products. He added that the FDA hasn't made a decision on how it will regulate the industry, and that the state shouldn't make any decisions on the matter before the federal government weighs in.
One other benefit of e-cigarettes is the variety of flavored liquids, Harden said. He said that he can order 267 different flavors ranging from salty to sweet. He quipped that it also works as an air freshener. With e-cigarettes, there are no more smoky smells in his car, home or clothing but rather the scent of strawberries or whatever flavor he's using at the time.
Lastly, they do not make their own liquid, which, he said, means there's consistency in his product.
Harden is hoping the business will expand with time. Shooting Star Vapors is located at Aiken's Finest Auto Care And Exhaust, 1696 Richland Ave. E. It is open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday.
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Soundwave Comics is celebrating this year's Halloween Comicfest with a costume party and thousands of free special edition comic books.
It's a spinoff off of Free Comic Book Day and Soundwave owner Greg Woodard will be giving away about 2,000 Halloween comic books on Oct. 26 while supplies last. Each customer will be able to take three free comic books, he said.
Comic books like Thor, Spiderman and Batman are good for older kids, and releases like Powerpuff Girls are good for younger readers, Woodard said. Samurai Jack may invoke nostalgia from the 1990s, as it has a new comic coming out for the event.
"We're always trying to do active things that are family-oriented," Woodard said, adding that comic books encourage kids to read.
The store opens at 11 a.m. Starting at Noon local artists Albert Capitan and Dexter Blanding will show off their work and draw humorous sketches of customers in costume.
Local costume specialist Christa Elrod, who has won several of Soundwave's costume contests, will be giving tips for making Halloween costumes.
The party starts at about 6 p.m. and the costume contest is expected to be at 7 p.m. There will be prizes for winners. There are guys, girls and kids categories.
At 8 p.m. there will be a comic and pop culture auction in which customers auction collectible items from their collection. This means rare and possibly signed comics as well as other noteworthy pop culture items.
"It's a good way for customers to get rid of things they are tired of and get some new things in their collection," Woodard said. "We're ready to kick it up and get horrified with decorations. Halloween has always been one of my favorite holidays."
"It's free and everyone is welcome," manager Holly Griffin said, adding that the costumer contest theme is movie mayhem.
"Comics are for everyone," Woodard said.
Guests are encouraged to get into the Halloween spirit with comic book themes ranging from horror, paranormal, sci-fi and spooky twists on traditional super hero books.
At Halloween Comicfest Soundwave will debut its first t-shirts that come in two designs made by local artists Brice Gould and Dexter Blanding.
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Most climate models paint a bleak picture of the Great Plains a century from now as a hot region besieged by heavy rainstorms and flooding.
And new studies suggest that climate change may bring farmers another headache: more invasive plants.
Ask most Midwestern and Rocky Mountain ranchers about the weeds they pull their hair out over and be prepared for a long list. There's cheat grass in Nebraska, red brome in Utah and yellow star thistle in California.
And they can't count on cattle to gobble them up. Depending on the plant, most cattle either don't want to eat it or could get sick if they do.
"You kinda have to teach them about a new plant," says Ellen Nelson, a rancher in north-central Colorado who has a weed problem. "I've gotten some of them to eat some, but in general, that's a hard one."
As climate change takes hold, it's likely to only get worse, not just for Nelson, but for ranchers across the country. In 2005, U.S. Department of Agriculture research ecologist Dana Blumenthal set out to find out just how it will get worse. Specifically, he wanted to know what effect climate change will have on a noxious weed called Dalmatian toadflax that's encroached on grasslands in 32 U.S. states.
For about eight years Blumenthal and his team simulated one possible future climate in the Wyoming grassland. They used a heating apparatus to keep test plots warmer than normal, and pumped carbon dioxide into the air surrounding the toadflax.
The warming and CO2 weren't set at doomsday levels, but rather conservative levels Blumenthal says the Plains could see within a century. Under those conditions, Dalmatian toadflax flourished, growing in size 13-fold and producing more seeds.
"The simplest reason that invasive species are likely to do well under future conditions is that they are pretty much by definition good at dealing with change," Blumenthal said.
That's why Dalmatian toadflax could be emblematic of an even larger problem. Invasive species are invasive because they can adapt quickly.
Similar field studies across the country have shown other nasty weeds do well in warmer, more CO2-heavy conditions. Blumenthal's results were published in the journal New Phytologist late last year. He says there is a trend toward global climate change increasing invasion, but scientists need more data to make solid predictions.
"There are going to be cases of invasive species, some of which we care a lot about, becoming much more problematic, and there are going to be cases of invasive species retreating from where they now exist," Blumenthal said. "We don't know enough to say how common this is going to be yet."
Dalmatian toadflax is just one piece of a much larger ecological puzzle.
Back at Ellen Nelson's ranch, she's formulating this year's plan of attack against the toadflax. She's welcoming a new class of steers. Their first lesson will be to learn to love the taste of toadflax.
"Maybe we're going to learn how to live with some of these weeds," she says. "That might be heretical to say."
But it's a heresy that many of her fellow ranchers will have to get used to keep producing beef for American tables.
Luke Runyon reports from Colorado for KUNC and Harvest Public Media, a public radio reporting collaboration that focuses on agriculture and food production issues. A version of this story originally appeared on Harvest Public Media's site.
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Invasive weeds are a big headache for cattle ranchers. Left to grow, they become food for the herd, and it's not exactly what ranchers want their cattle to eat. So the ranchers spend thousands of dollars to get rid of those weeds. Research now suggests that climate change may make the problem even worse. In a warmer climate, the weeds will thrive. Luke Runyon reports from member station KUNC in Colorado.
LUKE RUNYON, BYLINE: Ellen Nelson has a weed problem.
ELLEN NELSON: How about if we go this way?
RUNYON: In the summer, one hillside of her small ranch near Bellvue in North Central Colorado turns bright yellow. The culprit? A tall, rubbery weed with golden flowers called Dalmatian toadflax.
NELSON: See there's these little rosettes.
RUNYON: The plant is a pain. It crowds out native grasses that her cattle actually like to eat.
NELSON: And it's such a tough, waxy plant that by the time it really gets going, you just can't get the herbicide in it.
RUNYON: The expensive herbicide is a relatively new weapon for Nelson. It's already cost her thousands of dollars. She's tried pulling the plant by hand and releasing weevils that burrow into its stalks. Lately, Nelson's put her faith in her livestock, her steers, trying to convince them toadflax doesn't taste so bad.
NELSON: You kind of have to teach them about a new plant. I've gotten some of them to eat some, but in general, that's a hard one.
RUNYON: Nelson admits, so far, the toadflax is winning. And as climate change takes hold, it's likely to only get worse, not just for Nelson but for ranchers across the country.
DANA BLUMENTHAL: Right. There's Dalmatian toadflax.
RUNYON: U.S. Department of Agriculture researcher Dana Blumenthal studies how climate change will affect large swathes of grassland. For about eight years, Blumenthal and his team simulated a possible future climate - warmer and more concentrated with carbon dioxide - in the Wyoming grassland. Under those conditions, Dalmatian toadflax flourished.
BLUMENTHAL: The simplest reason that invasive species are likely to do well under future conditions is that they are pretty much, by definition, good at dealing with change.
RUNYON: Invasive plants are invasive because they can adapt quickly and more rapidly than the tastes of the grazing cattle that end up on your plate. To help ranchers adapt, Blumenthal says scientists need more data to make solid predictions.
BLUMENTHAL: There are going to be cases of invasive species, some of which we care a lot about, becoming much more problematic. And there are going to be cases of invasive species retreating from areas where they now exist.
RUNYON: What will America's grasslands look like a century from now? The answer to that question affects ranchers across the country who will face expensive headaches when weeds out-compete native grasses. Blumenthal says Dalmatian toadflax is just one piece of a much larger ecological puzzle.
BLUMENTHAL: We don't know enough to say how common this is going to be yet.
STEVE RYDER: We are just treading water at the moment.
RUNYON: Steve Ryder is with the State of Colorado's Noxious Weed Management Program. He says like managers in most states, his focus is on keeping new weeds out. Some have already gained a foothold.
RYDER: If climate change is going to accelerate that, then we need to decide whether we're going to accelerate the response.
NELSON: Come on. Go.
RUNYON: Back at Ellen Nelson's ranch outside Bellvue, she's formulating this year's plan of attack against Dalmatian toadflax. She's welcoming a new class of steers. The first lesson? Learn to love the taste of toadflax.
NELSON: Maybe we're going to learn how to live with some of these weeds, I don't know. That might be heretical to say.
RUNYON: But it's a heresy that many of her fellow ranchers will have to get used to to keep producing beef for American tables. For NPR News, I'm Luke Runyon in Greeley, Colorado.
SIEGEL: And that story came to us from Harvest Public Media, a reporting collaboration that focuses on agriculture and food. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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(02-12-2012 07:59 PM)lashay12 Wrote: one day when i graduate and get established financially am moving of my mothers house and am going to keep my distance from her. since she wants to be mean to me and tell me to shut up and don't want to listen to me. i tried to explain things to her she doesn't want to listen. i really feel like a nothing right now. i feel like going something and never returning. am crying right now because it hurts like hell. am tired of hurting i wish i can just move out and get my own place but i dont no job and am not financially stable right now which is messed up.
I'm in the same boat except my mom doesn't treat me like crap. It's hard to not have a job but ur in college right? That will get you a job and if you just do ur time now and wait it out I'm sure things will start to get better or if nothing else you will be away and on with your own life.
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You know, mental illness is like the Mickey Mouse song "Anything Can Happen Day", released when I was a kid -- around the same time fire was discovered:
Today is a day that is filled with surprises,
Nobody knows what's gonna happen.
Why, you might find yourself on an elephant on the moon
Or riding in an auto underneath a blue lagoon.
Yes, we Mouseketeers think you're gonna have some thrills,
And you know it's true that a laugh can cure your ills.
And so, if you're pleasure bent, we are glad to present
The Mouseketeers' "Anything Can Happen Day.
I have to think the dude who wrote that was bipolar, or maybe schizophrenic, because he sure did understand what my life is like everyday.
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become. CS Lewis.
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(03-12-2012 08:44 PM)lashay12 Wrote: am crying because am hurting emotionally but who the hell cares. sometimes i feel like just packing up my things and just leaving since everything i say and do blows up in my damn face.
aw, i'm sorry, lashay. i really am. we all care about you. we really do.
Once a stone heart shattered and came along a true love so pure and sweet.
"I have the best fans in the world, gay and straight....
A person is a person."- Colton Haynes on his fans.
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Listen. Lashay. What Im about to do is in no way intentionally insulting you. So I apoligize if any of it is taken that way. You need to wake up. You have had a lot of people listen to you in this thread and tell you they are there for you. Yet you continue to say how you are alone and no one on this forum cares about you. Clearly they do! You just need to open your eyes and see that! The whole world isn't against you. Trust me. I feel that way a lot too. I feel like just giving up. But that's the selfish thing to do. I obviously don't know you personally. But I bet there are people in your life who care about you and are worried. You need to open up to them. Let them in. Except that they ARE there for you and can help you. That's a good thing! That in itself should put you in a better mood! Everyone who has helped you in this thread has cared! And you should be thanking them. And not responding with accusing them of not caring. Because they clearly do. And if I posted trying to cheer you up. And you contineued to say that I didn't care. I would be pretty upset. I hoped that helped. And again. Not to be taken as criticism. But as hopefully good advice to help out another zac fan.
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(03-14-2012 04:56 PM)lashay12 Wrote: ts just that am a little insecure and when i saw the video of the pretty girl that zac seem to like i got upset. the reason is that she reminded me of what i wasn't and could never become.
I was that girl (you) when I was younger. I never identified with the pretty girls, the birds who flipped their hair and giggled and acted like children. But it's no use lamenting what you can't be, or trying to be what you aren't (I actually changed myself significantly my junior yr in high school to try and fit in, and became one of the pretty, popular girls, but the entire time I felt I was wearing somebody else's hairstyle and somebody else's clothes and somebody else's personality.)
So if you can't join them, then at least beat them up (lmao!) I realized I had the perfect physique for bodybuilding (Monica Brant and fitness competitors / figure competitors are almost always 5'4 or so and about 118-130 pounds. ) So I trained - hard, and I got strong and powerful. That propped my ego up a bit. Then I went to grad school to further my smarts, and along the way, developed a personality.
Pretty girls aren't smart or interesting because they don't have to be. They are handed everything as if they were entitled to it. Now regular girls, we have to be intelligent or fit or witty because nobody gives us anything. BUT WE'RE the ones who make out in the end. Beauty fades with time, and their husbands, bored by their conversation and stupidity, look elsewhere (the number of Vice-Presidents, Managers and Directors throwing themselves in my direction is simply obscene). Meanwhile we come into our own because we've had to work for everything we got.
Point is, become everything you CAN BE! Develop yourself and let the pretty girls do what they do best: stand there twirling their hair.
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become. CS Lewis.
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Exactly! The most attractive you can be is knowing who you are. Accepting it and being the best you can be! Trust me. I get the insecure thing. Being jealous of other girls. Especially the ones the man I want likes. Haha. It's natural. I still do it. But I am a hopeless romantic. And I believe there is someone out there for everyone. And someday you will find that someone who loves you for just the way you are and that will make you happy that you didn't change yourself. You could of missed them!
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Also, it is important to realize that beauty does not recognize himself in another; that is to say, it does not follow that because someone is beautiful, he is an arbiter of aesthetic taste and good judgement.
Only a student of aesthetics has the requisite background to recognize beauty in objects and persons, and since in persons physical beauty is conflated with intellectual and spiritual beauty, it is necessary to consider these as well, which is why there is a triad of qualities: truth (intellect), goodness (soul) and beauty (physical).
I will say nowhere did Aristotle, Burke, Aquinas, Joyce, Wilde, Ruskin or Poe state "in addition to integrity, proportion and radiance, the beautiful also possesses long dark hair, dark eyes, and is of non-caucasian origin."
In fact, IF that is all Zac is capable of finding beautiful, then he is narrow-minded or under-educated. A read of Aristotle's poetics might be in order.
And Wilde - always.
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become. CS Lewis.
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Just when I thought I avoided the people who are mean to me, they somehow find me again just to bully me. I don't even know how to avoid them anymore because they always find me whether on here, twitter, tumblr, facebook, real life. I don't think I can deal with this anymore.
{c} michelle.
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There are certain people you will never be able to avoid. I learned that one in the past year with my bf's crazy cousin and her gang of sleazy ladies BUT what I have realized is that eventually there will come a time when ur just going to kinda idk how else to say it but get over it I guess. People are lame and going to try to bring you down and if it's some sort of roundabout family or someone in general you can't avoid, it's going to be tougher but at some point you just won't care anymore. You'll realize it takes more energy to be upset over it than to just realize it's there, the drama will never leave but if you just don't care it won't bother you inside as much.
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This is such a good thread.
I want to be able to talk about what I'm going through, because I want to help other people in the same situation.
I'm facing a daily battle, and have done since I was 15. I used to come on this forum ages ago, so I'm not 100% sure who knows and who don't, I briefly mentioned it way back when.
But now I'm so called "in recovery" it's a lot easier to talk about, but I'm nowhere near better.
I have an eating disorder, and it's still so difficult to even type those words, I cringe, because I honestly never thought I'd have an eating disorder, I thought it was "Normal" what I was putting my body through and I thought I wasn't harming my body. Yeah, right.. It took me passing out and being rushed into hospital where I stayed for a while to realise what I was actually doing. Still now I see a psychologist and I constantly need support and help because I'm struggling. (Especially this last week.) But, I want my experiences and my journey through recovery to help others, because even though all what I just typed was negative, there's a lot of positive things I can say. (:
In the past, and it had stayed in the past until yesterday, I've also been a 'cutter'. and trust me when I say that it was in the past, but yesterday things got so bad I didn't even realise what I was doing until I'd done it. Meh. But, I'd got through that once before, I can do that again. (:
Also, my Mum STILL won't accept my sexuality. Bleugh. That's stressing me out big time. She hates the fact that I'm a lesbian and refuses to meet the girl I'm seeing purely because she can't stand the thought of it. Everyone else is fine, apart from my Mum. This is something I'm still working on with her.
Coming out was hard though, gosh. I wouldn't want to do that again. :/
But, in a positive end, seriously guys, if anyone can relate to anything I've posted and want someone to talk to that has been there and experienced it, don't hesitate. Reply here or PM me (:
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Forwards Darren Haydar (2G) and Jordan Schroeder scored while goaltender Eddie Lack (1-1) stopped 18 shots for Chicago, which cut its deficit in the best-of-five series to 2-games-to-1.
"We had a great start in the first and did a lot of things we set out to do," said Wolves head coach Craig MacTavish. "We let them back in it in the second, but we defended well enough to hang on in the third."
Chicago (1-2) opened scoring at the 12:44 mark of the opening period. Schroeder held the puck along the far boards and sent a shot on net that redirected off a defenseman's stick and over the shoulder of San Antonio goaltender Dov Grumet-Morris.
The Wolves doubled their lead when right wing Mark Mancari faked a shot from the top of the near circle and instead slipped a pass to the far post where Haydar was waiting to tap home the puck past Grumet-Morris at 19:05.
Grumet-Morris (0-1) posted 21 saves on 23 shots.
San Antonio (2-1) got on the scoreboard while on the power play at 16:41 of the second period. Left wing Evan Barlow controlled the puck in the far circle and saucered a pass back door to defenseman Alex Petrovic, who hammered home the puck into the back of the net.
Haydar added an empty-net tally at 19:22 of the third period to make the score 3-1, but center Bracken Kearns scored the Rampage's second goal of the night with two seconds remaining to close out scoring.
The Wolves look to even the series when they host the Rampage at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Allstate Arena.
San Antonio 0 1 1 -- 2
Chicago 2 0 1 -- 3
First Period---1, Chicago, Schroeder 1 (Sweatt, Davies), 12:24; 2, Chicago, Haydar 2 (Mancari, Doell), 19:05. Penalties---Yonkman, San Antonio (holding), 6:51; Petrovic, San Antonio (interference), 13:36.
Second Period---3, San Antonio, Petrovic 1 (Barlow, Matsumoto), 16:41 pp. Penalties---Matsumoto, San Antonio (tripping), 0:09; Clackson, Chicago (elbowing), 3:05; Baumgartner, Chicago (high-sticking), 11:24; Matheson, Chicago (hooking), 15:27.
Third Period---4, Chicago, Haydar 3 (Bitz), 19:22 en; 5, San Antonio, Kearns 2 (Cullen), 19:58). Penalties---Derlyuk, San Antonio (hooking), 2:09; Bitz, Chicago (holding), 5:02; Doell, Chicago (interference), 7:40.
Shots on goal---San Antonio: 4-5-11—20; Chicago: 11-8-5--24. Power plays---San Antonio: 1-5; Chicago: 0-4. Goalies---San Antonio, Grumet-Morris (21-23); Chicago, Lack (18-20). A---2,399. Referees---Shaun Davies and Jean Hebert. Linesmen---Mathieu Chenier and Al Stensland.


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Well here we go. It's been almost 6 years. DD will be 6 on March 10th and we are doing this. Background- Pre-e popped up at 27 weeks- officially diagnosed at 29 weeks, made it to 35 weeks but had cerebral edema, 3 beats of clonus, and plus 4 reflexes and lasting damage to my optic nerve.
Well fast forward, and now we live on a remote island in Alaska. 800 air miles from the nearest hospital, but we do have a great clinic and dh is the CFO/COO there. My doc came over to dinner tonight and we talked. She actually read copies of all the emails I sent out starting at diagnosis to family and friends so she could see things as they progressed and we looked at preg pics from then and saw when the swelling starting- which was weeks before the pre-e.
So we have a plan set up. I leave the island in March and will go see a peri for a pre conception workup, then she will coordinate with the peri the entire pregnancy and I will leave the island no later than 32 weeks but before if needed. She's not concerned as much with the physical since we will be on top of that, but with my emotional, so I will be seen every 2 weeks my entire pregnancy, more frequently if I want. I can pop in anytime for pressure checks and ultrasounds (did I mention how awesome it is that my doc is my good friend and dh works there LOL) I will also be seeing the therapist at the clinic to help work through anxiety and ptsd issues that may come up. I also have a history of miscarriage so we will do progesterone to help that and because of my history of migraines and raynauds which are both risk factors for developing pre-e, I am going to do an anti-inflammatory diet, basically lots of lean protein- fish, which we already eat 3-4 times a week that we catch ourselves here, lots of fruits vegetables and whole grains. We are also doing clotting factor bloodwork and will discuss low dose aspirin.
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Madison -- Wisconsin Democrats aren't sold on Governor Scott Walker's plan for Wisconsin after the governor's speech on Tuesday. State Sen. Dave Hansen (D) Green Bay responded by saying:
The 2013-2014 WI legislative session has begun. On January 10, the Assembly met and passed just 3 new pieces of legislation and 2 of them had to do with new rules applying to their body, including the Gallery.
This was done for a number of reasons, the most important one - to make it harder for constituents to observe their lawmakers in action.
MADISON – Today marks the 40th anniversary of the landmark Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision which legalized abortion and granted constitutional protection to a woman's right to make her own reproductive health decisions. Rep. Chris Taylor released the following statement on the anniversary and the current struggle to keep reproductive health care affordable and accessible:
"On the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, we honor the health care providers, staff, advocates and activists who have committed their lives to providing essential reproductive health services to women and the advocacy to make sure these services continue to be available. When abortion services are illegal and unavailable, women die and maternal health is severely compromised.
"But on this 40th anniversary of Roe, opponents of safe, legal abortion services and birth control are diligently working to roll back access to these services and the choices women have over their lives. Though Governor Walker insists that jobs and the economy are his focus (Wisconsin's bottom of the barrel job creation record under his leadership should compel such attention), his administration has ushered in unprecedented cuts to family planning services, comprehensive sex education and abortion services. Governor Walker, who opposes all legal abortions, including for rape and incest victims as well as birth control, has proclaimed today 'Protect Life Day' in Wisconsin. Governor Walker and opponents of reproductive health care don't understand that access to these services are essential to women and their families and the choices they make in their lives.
"Today, we should not only celebrate a court ruling that gives women the right to make their most personal and private decisions, but we should also pledge our steadfast opposition to those who are trying to dial back the clock on women's rights."
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I know that in the passed ASUS AI Suite II can be a little paranoid and give out false readings. but, +3.3V has dropped into RED at 2.952 which is not a massive drop in voltage. But I don't know why it is doing this, and it's just dropped again to 2.928V which is kind of worrying now. I'm wondering if this could be BIOS related because I did update the BIOS a couple of months ago. thankfully this motherboard has FlashBack which is very handing. I'm wondering about flashing back the BIOS to the previous BIOS before I updated and see if this resolves the problem.
I have been running History Record for the last hour and I can see the fluctuation in the voltage from 9.952V to 9.928V whereas this should be on 3.3V. Is that doesn't work then I do have a spare PSU which I could try just in case. I also have a spare MB but it's not Windows 8 compatible which kind of sux.
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I did not attend WWDC this year, but supposedly they were emphasizing AutoLayout much more than in the past. Was that the case? If so, that might lend some credence to different screen size rumors.
Apple yet again rumored to launch iPhones with larger screens, multiple colors
Rumors about Apple releasing iPhones with larger screens and multiple colors aren't anything new. This time Reuters is reporting that it could happen next year due to pressure from the market and rival handset makers, namely Samsung. According to Reuters, sources familiar with the matter say Apple could be looking at 4.7" and 5.7" models as well as up to 6 color choices instead of the standard black and white options.
Apple is looking at introducing at least two bigger iPhones next year - one with a 4.7-inch screen and one with a 5.7-inch screen - said the sources, including those in the supply chain in Asia. They said suppliers have been approached with plans for the larger screens, but noted it is still unclear whether Apple will actually launch its flagship product in the larger sizes.
With Samsung steadibly increasing their smartphone marketshare each year, it makes sense that Apple would at least consider larger iPhone variants to capture back the market that wants larger screens. The Galaxy S4 sports a 5" screen while the Galaxy Note II has a 5.5" screen. Anyone who has seen a Note II in person is probably aware that it borders tablet size.
As far as other colors are concerned, Reuters is reporting that Apple may be looking at 5-6 different colors next year instead of just the traditional black and white options.
While it may make sense for Apple to look at a larger iPhone, we also have to keep in mind that Apple hates fragmentation and that's what different screen sizes will do for developers. iOS 7 will bring with it an all new set of challenges for developers on its own. While a 4.7" or 5" screen may not be out of the question in future revisions, I can't personally see Apple ever making an iPhone that's sporting a 5.7" screen. It would cut dangerously close to cutting into iPad mini marketshare and I'm not sure Apple wants to cannibalize a fairly new product line, at this point anyways.
As for color options, a lot argue that the iPod touch has color options so why not iPhone? A lot of that can have to do with who each product is aimed at. The iPod touch is aimed mostly at a younger audience. Flashy colors attract that audience. iPhones are also sold in much larger quantities than iPods. Carrying inventory for several different carriers and capacities on top of multiple colors drastically increases overhead costs and the inventory each physical retail store must carry for warranty replacements.
Reuters didn't have any information on what would be released this year but logic dictates the "S" upgrade will most likely follow suit with previous updates with a similar form factor that features mainly internal upgrades. That being said, will you be waiting until next year for a larger iPhone that may or may not happen or picking up an iPhone 5s, or whatever they decide to call it, later this fall?
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Apple yet again rumored to launch iPhones with larger screens, multiple colors
I think I may need to upgrade with whatever comes out this fall as my VZW iPhone 4 is getting a bit long in the tooth, and slower.
I've refused to upgrade to 4S or 5 due to Apple not making a larger screen size. The 5 is "larger" but really only taller. Still not impressed with that. So the "reported" 4.7" size sounds interesting to me. The 5.7 inch size would be bigger than I care for in a phone, and I also doubt Apple would make an iPhone that large.
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I loved my iPhone 5, but that screen and type is just too damn small once you start getting older and the eyes start going to hell. I went back to Android (HTC One, which is phenomenal) and won't switch back till Apple makes this change to bigger screens that us old blind folks can read! :-)
5.7" is 14% bigger than 5". Would touch targets reallly be unworkable at that size increase? The iPad Mini to iPad increase is 22% and yet they managed it without changing the resolution. As long as they don't change the resolution there's no fragmentation.
Personally while I want want want a larger phone (easier typing, larger targets, easier to read web pages, etc) I'll probably be switching to the iPhone 5S from my iPhone 4S this fall. Since AT&T isn't giving me any incentive to stay (can't get new phone early, can't get tethering without switching plans etc) I'm going to switch to Verizon at that time. Looking forward to it, other than the simultaneous voice/date thing. But hey, maybe they'll fix that with the 5S?
It always amazed me that this was even an argument. It seems so simple, make 2 phone sizes, one that is the current size and a larger one for the rest of us. It seems like an argument always materializes about one handed use versus two. It's become pretty darn obvious that a quite a few people don't care about the one handed use feature.
I left my iPhone 4 due to screensize, went to a Galaxy S3...which I loved but was borderline too big for girl hands heh. I sold my GS3 for a BlackBerry Z10 and I love this phone - and it's still easily one handed usable while being a bigger screen than the iPhone 5. The extra .2 inch makes a huge difference to my 38 year old severely near sighted eyes...I would be thrilled with even a size bump between a 4.2 - 4.5" screen on the next iPhone, but I likely will be back in the fall because iOS 7 and it's design appeals to me. Strongly. It hits every design chord in me.
i'd hope there would be options. if there was no option for around a 4 inch screen i could just go android where i have a choice. don't like the look of ios 7, phone getting too big. At some point it could simply become not ideal choice for me.
I like the smaller screen and wouldn't mind going back to the 4, if only it had full support for recent ios models. I think the iphone 5 is too big! The only thing i really wish apple would do, is make 2 models of each phone, a regular model and a model with a battery 3 times the regular model. That way i wouldn't have to spend $120 for this Mophie! And i could just throw a regular case on it and go! I want a phone again that will last 2-3 days like my old envy!
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I usually skip the "s" model iPhone and upgrade every other model. However now I've decided to skip to upgrading on the "s" model of iPhone. So since I got an iPhone 5 I will begrudingly have to skip the iPhone 5s, iPhone 6 and upgrade to the iPhone 6s if they are still even calling it that by then. If they have larger screens I would definitely consider a 5" screen but it's not that I'm unhappy with my iPhone 5. I just would because it would be an option.
If you are thinking a larger screen will help with vision problems, it will not. You will just see a fuzzy large screen. I cannot read anything on my iPhone, but cannot read the iPad, or MacBook Pro. Yes I can increase the font, but then you are scrolling all over the place. Get some eye grasses. Your 3.5 inch screen will look huge. To the post, I can see a 5 inch, but anything bigger, just starts looking funny. There has to be a fine line where it is not really a phone, but a small tablet that you can call people on.
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I can tell you that yes. It does. And I have to get $1000 per lens specially compressed glass lenses because I'm actually at the point of being legally blind without my glasses on. That extra screen size, even with glasses, helps immensely. That said, anything larger than a 4.5" screen starts to become a tad...unruly to handle.
I was on the subway yesterday and no joke i counted 4 samsung big screen phones surrounding me, i was almost embarrassed to pull out my "tiny" iP5 lol
i would never switch but i REALLY want a big screen - give us size CHOICES like on the laptops!! one reason apple likes making one model of phone is so they can buy parts in greater volume therefore they get better profit margins. i think its time apple stopped stockpiling the worlds cash and take a little smaller profit and give us better choices like more sizes and battery capacities, stop cutting corners like on the chargers have short cords, give us a charger with a power plug in it, not just a USB plug. etc......


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CHARLESTON, S.C. – Following the lead of the Chattanooga Mocs football team with a 28-24 victory over the Citadel at Finley Stadium Saturday afternoon, Head Coach Travis Filar's Mocs volleyball team claimed a 3-1 win over the Bulldogs in Charleston, S.C. The win brings UTC's Southern Conference record to 3-7 on the season.
For the second night in a row, sophomore Briana Reid (Houston, Texas) put up double-digit kills, digs and points. The attacker totaled 15 kills, 16 digs and 17.0 points on the night, while junior Kasey Talley (Boiling Springs, S.C.) led the Mocs with 16 kills and a team-best 18.5 points. Sophomore Lauren Gainer (Boca Raton, Fla.) finished third with 15.5 points and 15 kills.
"This is about as complete of a team win we have had all season," Filar said of the Mocs. "The Citadel truly fought hard all match and made things tough on us, but our team just stayed together and they had a collective will to win."
Despite falling 27-25 in a nail-biting first set to the Bulldogs, UTC went on to claim the next three frames of the match 25-18, 25-17 and 25-19.
The Citadel had its best offensive set in the first with a .333 hitting percentage and 18 kills. Chattanooga tied the Bulldogs with 18 kills of its own in the set. However, seven errors compared to The Citadel's three helped hand the Bulldogs to the two points they needed to go up 1-0 in the match.
The Mocs retaliated with 15 kills in the second frame and a match-best .343 hitting percentage. UTC held the Bulldogs to a .088 hitting percentage in the second, and The Citadel hitting stats would only sink from there. They were .048 in the third and .029 in the final set.
The Bulldogs led 10-6 before UTC went on a huge run. Chattanooga scored 19 of the match's final 27 points.
Chattanooga won the third set with its largest margin of the day – eight points – and hit .200. UTC took 14 kills over the Bulldogs' nine and nearly repeated the feat in the fourth set with a seven point victory. UTC hit a match-low .186 with 16 kills while The Citadel only recorded nine kills and committed a match-worst eight errors. They managed just 34 attacks against the Mocs in the final set.
"Now we have to continue to work and get better," Filar said. "We have to build on the momentum we gained this weekend and I know our team can do just that."
The Mocs are back on the road Friday to take on Samford in Birmingham, Ala., before returning home next Sunday to host Davidson for a 2 p.m. matchup to kick off the week.


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iPaditis is either a new plague about to be unleashed on humanity... or a way for the BBC to poke a little fun at those of us who enjoy our iPads. Check out the video below and let me know what you think!
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Kelly Joe Phelps and Corinne West will bring their wonderful new duo to Angeline's Bakery in Sisters next week. Both are well known solo artists on the folk circuit, but they've merged their talents. West told The Bulletin why:
We didn't know quite what to expect other than that we were going to have a great time, which we did. However, we found a mutual bond on many musical levels that took the music places neither of us had been artistically. Very magical. It was an easy decision in the end to continue forward, as the music seemed to form its own life around us, and we both thought it was extremely beautiful. Heartfelt and strong. So many things.
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We've been amazed by the sound of our voices together — something neither one of us ever expected to find in terms of a true sympathetic companion vocally. Not emotionally, necessarily (even though that does apply as well) but tonally. We're still amazed by that. And we've found a commonality in things like phrasing, vocal or guitar, where we'll be in the middle of some flight of musical fancy and find ourselves phrasing vocally or guitaristically in the exact same way at the exact same moment. Out of seemingly nowhere. It's really turning into quite a journey.
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Alt-country icon Steve Earle played to a sold-out Tower Theatre in Bend June 29. I was there and wrote a review, and here's part of it:
I was surprised by how few songs Earle did from his new record "Townes," a tribute to his mentor, the late songwriting genius Townes Van Zandt. He did the man's best-known tune, "Pancho and Lefty," and "Rex's Blues," as well as one of his own songs, "Ft. Worth Blues," that's about Van Zandt. But that was it, unless I missed one.
As he introduced "Rex's Blues," Earle described Van Zandt as a "migratory" fellow, and the lyrics of "Ft. Worth Blues" reflect that; besides the title town, Colorado, Tennessee, Texas (and Houston), Amsterdam, London and Paris all make an appearance in the song.
Five minutes later, Earle was plucking his guitar and talking about his sons, two of whom are grown and the other brand new. He dedicated "Little Rock 'n' Roller" — a tender lullaby released 25 years ago on Earle's first album — to his boys, and turned in a genuinely moving performance that exuded a blend of love and regret that any workaholic parent can understand.
Somewhere in there, it occurred to me that "Ft. Worth Blues" and "Little Rock 'n' Roller" neatly sum up most of Earle's oeuvre; almost all of his songs are about motion or emotion. Or both. If he's not singing about being stuck in this town, getting out of this town, or wandering over to that other town, he's playing a song he wrote "for what's-her-name, wherever the hell she is," as he said in Bend.
I hope you'll click here and read the whole thing. And click here to see more of Bulletin photographer Rob Kerr's photos of the show.
Elsewhere in this week's music section: Former Men at Work frontman Colin Hay kicks off the Clear Summer Nights series, top-notch folkies Sid Selvidge and Amy Speace play a house show in Bend, The Aggrolites return to town, the Poison Control Center brings '90s indie rock to Mountain's Edge, and Silver Moon Brewing has a typically strong week planned, with the Raina Rose Trio tonight, Not An Airplane on Saturday, and a full band show by The White Buffalo on Thursday. As usual, you can find lots more fun stuff to see and hear in The Bulletin's complete music listing.


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BOSTON (AP) — You have probably heard the Aerosmith song "Dream On" before. But it's getting a makeover to honor victims of last year's Boston Marathon bombings.
Steven Tyler and Joe Perry have laid down a new arrangement of the song — joined by a children's chorus.
Aerosmith has Boston roots — and the group performed their signature hit at the Boston Strong benefit concert last May.
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You'd download from Day after US by WB over iTunes if you have non-iOS devices. I'd imagine you could redownload on those devices as well, which you can't do with an iTunes download.
Day after US by Warner Bros. lets you purchase episodes of WB TV shows the day after they air in the U.S.
Warner Bros. has released a new iPhone and iPad app call Day after US that allows users to purchase and download episodes of Gossip Girl, The Vampire Diaries, and The Big Bang Theory the day after they air in the U.S. The episodes are downloaded directly to your devices so that you can play them back at anytime, even if you don't have an internet connection, or you can stream them instantly over Wi-Fi.
Shockingly, Day after US does not support the iPhone 5's larger display. Since all of these episodes are already available on iTunes for the same price, I don't understand why any iPhone user would feel inclined to purchase from this app instead of iTunes. Even if you plan to watch episodes on your iPad, iTunes allows much more versatility since you can also watch the TV shows on your computer or Apple TV.
Day After US does allow you to download the first episode of each series for free, so if you wanted to watch these episodes to decide if you think you'll like shows, then that's a good reason to use Day After US. You can also get a few more episodes by
spamming sharing shows with your Facebook friends, so there's also that. But other than a few free episodes, I don't really see the appeal. Seeing the lack of iPhone 5 support leaves me wondering where else Warner Bros. cut corners. My reservations could be uncalled for, but this is honestly how I feel as a consumer -- I'd rather purchase from iTunes.
What about you? Have you downloaded any episodes from Day After US? Do you plan on using it regularly?
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I'd use Day after US if i could download the shows from my country. Neither iTunes or this app allows me to do that, unfortunately. I have the money and i'm willing to pay for my favorites series on my device, but Apple (or whoever) doesn't want me to have it.
Then people asks why piracy exists. Sad.
Both of those reasons make total sense.
The bigger picture here is that the studio is offering it's content DIRECTLY to the consumer aside from a cable subscription. All the aspects of the app may not be that great, and it may be more streamline to buy from iTunes, BUT to me, this is a step in the right direction fundamentally. Way to go WB....even though the app was pulled lol.
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Ten American students from across the nation will be visiting Saudi Arabia from Thursday, Dec. 27 to Monday, Jan. 7 2013 for a cultural emersion fellowship. Among those students is Mandie Maxwell, international relations major and marketing minor, from Shawnee State University.
Maxwell, daughter of Bob and Lynne Maxwell, of Wooster, Ohio, received the Saudi Arabia Winter Fellowship that includes an expense-paid study visit to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It will continue for one year when she will provide outreach to share her experience in the Saudi culture.
"I was shocked to get the fellowship," Maxwell said. "I really didn't think I had a chance. It is a very competitive fellowship."
During her time in the country, she will have unprecedented access to modern Saudi Arabian culture, society, economy and government. The student delegation (Model Arab League alumni) will travel between the capital Riyadh, the oil-rich Eastern Province, and Jeddah on the Red Sea.
This is the first time Maxwell has been in Saudi Arabia but not her first time out of the country. Last spring semester, she attended Al Akhawayn University in Morocco as an exchange student.
In 2011, Maxwell attended a Model Arab League at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. The League is similar to the Model UN, and students represented one of the Arab League's 22-member states. She represented Qatar.
Maxwell's in-country expenses in Saudi are covered by the National Council, the Saudi Arabian Cultural Mission (SACM) to the United States and the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE).


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As previously announced, Todd McFarlane created the special artwork used in conjunction with the opening of the Phoenix METRO Light Rail preview ride on Friday, Dec. 26.
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I'm flying home from the first round of the PALS in Bangkok, Thailand. We finished third. This is has been our best showing in Thailand, with it typically being our Achilles heel. Despite this, it feels like a very disappointing 3rd place. In previous years, I'd felt grateful to just make it to the top 4. I don't think I'd felt like we were playing good enough to win before. But this time we were and it just slipped away in one, hot, overtime point in the semi finals.
The prelims are tense at PALS with none of the teams being a walkover. The majority of our games were close with us winning 4 games and losing 2 to Xtioneers and Raskal. The same Raskal that was on the precipice of winning WCA showed up to play, and the 3 games we had against them throughout the tournament were definitely our most grueling.
Quarterfinals consisted of two games, with us facing off against Demonic and Raskal. We were able to smarten up our game plan from a definitive loss to Raskal in the prelims and come away with 2-quarter final wins, leaving us to face off against Asiawan in the semifinal.
We got penalties early in the match against Asiawan and quickly went down 0-2. Back at full strength, we were able to make a comeback and tie the game up at 2-2 and take the game into and overtime point. In this critical point, Rambo took a ball that bounced of another bunker early on, quickly followed by Farran and and Devon getting shot. This left Trav and I in a 2 vs. 5 against an Asiawan that smelt blood. We were able to slow them down for a few minutes but were eventually picked off, advancing Asiawan to the finals, which they won. This left us to verse Raskal again in the playoffs for 3rd and 4th.
It was a slow and technical match against Raskal again with communication and hiding being the key at the beginning of the points against their strong back gunners. We went up 2 points, and then they came back 2 points to tie the match with just under two minutes on the clock. We went into the next point knowing it would be the decisive point. Rambo was able to dink their dorito player on the hopper and draw a penalty, blowing out their dorito side. So Farran and I advanced down that side and we won the point with 5 seconds left on the clock, awarding us the 3rd place.
The infrastructure at the field was excellent and the event organizers were very helpful and accommodating having us over for our 5th Thailand event.
I'm glad we had Dye Ultralight gear as on Friday we played in 45 degrees and high humidity. Our DM14s were on point as usual and anything we needed, Dye was there to support us.
We'd also really like to thank Michelle who coached us all weekend and did a great job, as well as Milad, Preecher, Dennis, Amber and anyone else who helped us out in the pits!
We'd also like to shout out to our home field that some of us have played at for close to 10 years now — WASP Paintball in Perth, and our paintball parents, Brad and Christine.
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Heart of Europe Bike & Barge: Cochem to Metz
Travel through the pages of a storybook as you bike and barge through one of the most picturesque landscapes in Europe. The Moselle Valley is world-renowned for its enchanting castles, timber-framed villages, lush vineyards, pretty market squares and Roman monuments. It's also revered for its easy bike paths, which allow you to explore this scenic region in depth and up close. Cross the borders of three countries on a journey that gives you ample opportunity to experience local life – and the region's famous local wines. Only on a bike-and-barge tour can you explore this fairytale region at a pace that lets you take it all in.
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- Feast your eyes on picture-postcard views as you cycle past quiet villages, lush vineyards, small lakes, wooded mountains, and wide meadows
- Explore a volcanic landscape
- Taste the Moselle Valley's famous wines
- Delve into 2,000 years of history on a tour of Trier, once a Roman stronghold
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Jun 3.1 Jul 2.7 Aug 2.7 Sep 2.5 Oct 2.7
What's Included:
Bicycle Tour Only – without Air
- 7 nights aboard a private deluxe canal barge
- 16 meals – 7 breakfasts, 4 lunches, 5 dinners
Air Package Plus
- Roundtrip international airfare
- Transfers
- 19 meals – 10 breakfasts, 4 lunches, 5 dinners
- Guided walking tours of Koblenz and Luxembourg
- Entrance into Cochem Castle
- AND the option to add our Low-Cost Trip Extensions: Pre-trip: Berlin – 3 nights for only $545 • Post-trip: Munich – 3 nights for only $445
Both Vacation Options Include
- 1 glass of wine with all dinners aboard the barge
- FREE use of our custom VBT bicycle and helmet
- Service of two bilingual VBT Trip Leaders
- 6 days of cycling with FULL VAN SUPPORT during the cruise portion of your trip
- Sightseeing and cultural activities
- 5% Frequent Traveler Credit to use on your next VBT vacation
- Special Good Buy Discount


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