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Any recommendations of where to watch the TDF in Yorkshire? Looking for reasonably priced camping.
I stayed here a few years ago and it's quite close to Holme Moss. It's reasonably priced (unlike some of the pop-up sites that have appeared at various locations).
Personally I'm going here for the day http://www.tourdefrancesheffield.com/steel_stage.html
I'm not camping as it's very close to home. I was thinking of riding out to see the Tour at Holme Moss, but parking will be a nightmare and my family wanted to see the race too so cycling is out.
Too many hills, but too little time.
posted by badback [298 posts]
10th January 2014 - 15:07
(unlike some of the pop-up sites that have appeared at various locations).
Yep, there are some "sites" that are stupid expensive and are completely taking the back out.
posted by farrell [1945 posts]
10th January 2014 - 16:20
Thanks, will take a look! Yeah, just looked up Velofest and its ridiculous for what is basically just to pitch a tent? Been researching and thought this campsite looked good and is reasonably priced: www.Nidderdalebikefest.co.uk
posted by Nick Squier [7 posts]
10th January 2014 - 17:49
If you want cheaper camping with basic facilities try the various Rugby clubs on the Day 1 route.
I know them all very well.
Skipton,Wharfedale,Wensleydale Ripon and Harrogate are all offering camping on the pitches with use of the clubhouse facilities.
All have websites to book and I would expect a good drink induced atmosphere at all of them!
I live on the route and own a field to which I have carte-blanche permission from the local council to use for camping if I wish to do so. I dont.... but there will be plenty of ad hoc campsites.
For Day 2 choices, I would also chance the Rugby Clubs near to the route for showers, toilets and beer!( I don't know the route as well but easy to find out).
Come to sunny Yorkshire!!
posted by dalesyokel [1 posts]
10th January 2014 - 19:27
Try Hill Top Farm near Leyburn. Perfect location for a short ride to Whipperdale bank for the last cat 3 climb of stage 1.
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10th January 2014 - 20:32
posted by Nick Squier [7 posts]
10th January 2014 - 22:25
Would also appreciate some advice on this. Have provisionally booked accommodation in Wetherby for the first stage with a view to going to Leeds for the Grand Depart and hoping to later catch the race close to Harrogate towards the end of the stage. For the second stage we have booked in Glossop to watch the race from Holme Moss. We won't have bikes with us and need to drive to the stages. Have no knowledge of these areas so I would appreciate any local advice on whether we will be close enough to the stages and able to drive to them early on the morning?
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Osun State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Sunday Akere, in this interview with TUNDE ODESOLA, clears the air on the allegation that Governor Rauf Aregbesola has an Islamisation agenda
There are fears that Governor Rauf Aregbesola is planning to Islamise Osun. What is your take on this?
No statement is farther from the truth than this. Religion is a very personal, sentimental and volatile issue. So, we must be mindful of the way we use it. The State of Osun is one of the most peaceful states in the nation and we want it to remain so. Osun, like other states of the South-West, is highly heterogeneous in terms of people of diverse religious beliefs. We have people who worship all forms of gods like Ogun, Sango, Obatala, Iyemoja, Esu, etc. We also have the major dominant religions, Christianity and Islam. In all these diverse forms of worship, the Yoruba have co-existed for years without any religious upheavals. The region has never witnessed any religious crisis owing to the accommodative, tolerant and reasonable nature of the Yoruba. The State of Osun, as the ancestral source of all Yoruba is, for obvious reasons, very rich in culture and tradition.
It, therefore, takes an administration knowledgeable in the appreciation of religion, culture and tradition to correlate the divergence in various religions, cultures and traditions existing within the Osun geopolitical space. I need to state all these in order for everyone to appreciate our understanding of the issues at hand.
The state government is not at war with anybody or group over religious matters. Nigeria is a secular state and the state government, has from its inception, abided by the secularity the constitution confers on the nation. Religion, though a very personal enterprise, is a vehicle for social integration, unity and peace. Its improper handling could lead to strife. It is absolutely wrong to accuse Governor Aregbesola of Islamising Osun when his administration is the first in the history of Osun to give the people an elaborate celebration at Christmas and New Year with complete fireworks which was of international standards. No government in the history of Osun has ever decorated the streets and medians at Christmas and New Year as Aregbesola administration has done. The state government offers free rail service at Christmas, New Year and Easter. The government does this during Muslim festivals. The state government is currently building a 250, 000-seater crusade centre for Christians of all denominations. The centre is called Open Heaven Arena. It is located in Odo-Iju community near Ibodi, Ilesa.
The Aregbesola administration has been accused of fixing state functions for Sunday mornings when Christians are to be in church. How true is this?
The first time a state function was fixed for Sunday morning was in 2011 when we got wind that the then Governor of Oyo State, Adebayo Alao-Akala, was going to announce the turning of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, to Oyo State University. We got wind of the information on Saturday evening and Akala was going to do the announcement on Monday. You can see we had no time on our hands to deal with the situation than to convene an urgent stakeholders' meeting for Sunday. This pre-emptive action was what saved Ladoke Akintola University, Ogbomoso, from being taken over by the Akala administration. If Akala had made the pronouncement on a Monday, only God knows what would have become of the university today.
It is easy to unmake but not easy to make. Our belief that LAUTECH is a joint patrimonial legacy between Osun and Oyo states still remains unshaken. LAUTECH students, parents, lecturers, workers and other stakeholders of Osun origin attended the proactive function held at Government Technical College, Osogbo. The state government was applauded for taking the bold step to ensure that Oyo, under the Peoples Democratic Party leadership of Alao-Akala, did not appropriate LAUTECH to Oyo State. If we had failed to nip the move by Alao-Akala in the bud and allowed him to take away LAUTECH, which was co-funded by Osun and Oyo states from inception till date, posterity would not forgive us. I think our action was appropriate. The second time a function was fixed for Sunday morning was when Muslims marked their New Year and that was not a state function. It was a religious function organised by Osun Muslims and the governor was only a guest.
These were the two incidents which I can remember when functions were fixed for Sundays. The first function was done in the overall interest of the state and it was exigent, the other was not a state function.
There is also the accusation that the change of the state's appellation from "State of the Living Spring" to "State of the Virtuous" is part of the planned islamisation of the state.
I think there is more to our state than springs. Everybody knows Osun is synonymous with rivers and springs. I think the celebration of the people of Osun as being virtuous is better. I think we should learn to celebrate virtues. The change of the name is not, in the least, done to spite Christians, anyway. I am a Christian. It is a reflection of the government's commitment and passion to breathe a new lease of life to the state and give the people a new meaning, hope and joy. We want to be able to look back in years to come and see that we have been able to change the stereotypic belief that the black man is incapable of leadership; that the black man cannot achieve anything and that the black man has no place in modern existence. This is what is firing our zeal and zest to passionately develop our people and place Osun on the roadmap of developed states, where rule of law, equity, justice and peace abound. We won't look back. Our phenomenal achievements in infrastructural developments in all communities of the state speak volume for us.
The declaration of Hijra holiday by the state government has also been criticised by several people.
There are misconceptions which need clarification. Muslims in the state came to the government with a request that they want to be celebrating Hijra as a public holiday. It was not that the government just woke up and declared Hijra. It was a request made by the Muslim community in Osun. The government acted within the ambit of law by declaring as holiday the day Muslims chose for their New Year celebration. It is within the governor's constitutional powers to declare a public holiday if there is need for it. The Muslim community needed it, they requested and got it. The governor has said that he would be fair to all religions. If traditional religionists make request within the ambit of the law, their request will be met. In the 34-member state executive council, we have 25 Christians, nine Muslims. In the 26-member State House of Assembly, we have 16 Christians and 10 Muslims. Out of the nine House of Representatives members the state has, five are Christians while four are Muslims. Out of the three senators the state has, two are Christians while one is a Muslim.
The visit of the Sultan of Sokoto is also being linked with the Islamisation agenda.
So many traditional rulers and religious leaders have visited Osun since the inception of the Aregbesola administration. They had visited the state before Aregbesola became governor. The visit of the Sultan is a testimony to the fact that Osun, like other states in a federation, could have a handshake across the Niger; this is the partnership, integration and synergy needed between people of federation. This would promote social integration, socio-economic growth through commerce and trade between states. It will promote unity, peaceful existence just as it could curb age-long ethnic suspicions and fears. Aregbesola should be commended for his none discriminatory policies among peoples and religions. I think there is a misunderstanding in the interpretation of the actions of government by Osun CAN. The misunderstanding would be resolved. We are all working in the interest of peace. This is just a slight misunderstanding.


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Just days after landing Orlando (FL) Olympia forward William Green in its 2009 recruiting class, WKU basketball wasted no time in landing a player to join Green on Ken McDonald's team.
6-foot-6 forward Jordan Swing of Vestavia Hills High School in Birmingham, Ala. has committed to WKU. His high school coach, George Hatchett, confirmed reports Monday in a telephone interview.
"He's excited to be a Hilltopper," Hatchett said. "For the last month or so I think that's the direction he's been leaning... he came back from his visit and was very impressed with the facility and the staff and their commitment to the program."
WKU coach Ken McDonald can't comment publicly on recruits until they sign a national letter-of-intent.
According to Hatchett, Swing averaged 18 points last season but said, "that's like 25 or 30 for us (because of a slow-tempo playing style)." Swing complemented that with "right at" 10 rebounds a game while shooting 37 percent from three-point range and 80 percent from the free-throw line for a Vestavia Hills team that finished 12-17 last season.
Hatchett believes Swing's greatest asset is versatility: "He can play every position on the floor. He plays the "1" for us, sometimes the "2", sometimes the "3". He doesn't have just one thing he does well - he can post up or shoot from long-range... He runs well, jumps well and goes to the basket like a mad man... WKU got a heck of a player."
Hatchett said Swing's "about where most high school kids are" physically, but that Swing had gotten progressively stronger and had room to grow.
Hatchett said Swing turned down scholarship offers from Arkansas State, Middle Tennessee, Chattanooga, Belmont and Samford to join the Hilltoppers and also noted Swing had interest from Ole Miss and Alabama but that those two schools wanted Swing to wait until Spring 2009 to make a college choice.
Hatchett said Swing didn't want to wait and that the perseverance of the WKU coaching staff paid off.
"Kids want to go where they feel wanted," said Hatchett. "If you're going to make a big-time effort and show interest it'll pay off in the end."


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You are driving down a lonely back road.
Your car hits a patch of black ice and begins to slew out of control. As you struggle to remember what to do, the car takes over, stops the slide and prevents you from slipping straight off the road.
This is not the future. Electronic stability control (ESC) already prevents thousands of accidents a year, and beginning Sept. 1 it must be standard on every new car built for sale in America.
Experts everywhere agree that ESC saves lives. Insurance companies offer a discount for vehicles so equipped. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) estimates that if every vehicle on the road had ESC, fatal accidents would be reduced by 10,000 per year. Its 2010 study found that ESC reduces fatal crash involvement on average 33 percent -- a 20 percent reduction for multiple-vehicle crashes and 49 percent for single-car crashes.
It is a game-changing technology.
David Champion, the director of automotive testing at Consumer Reports, says, "If you are looking at the best ways to prevent deaths, seat belts are still No. 1, ESC is a close second and airbags are a distant third."
ESC is very effective at preventing rollovers
ESC has proved to be extremely effective at preventing rollovers in both SUVs and passenger cars. IIHS research shows that ESC can reduce the risk of fatal single-vehicle rollovers by 75 percent for SUVs and 72 percent for cars.
Federal research concurs. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) estimates that ESC can prevent 85 percent of SUV rollovers and 64 percent of car rollovers.
"Drivers of SUVs are now among the least likely to die in crashes," says Russ Rader, spokesperson at IIHS. "This is a big change from just a few years ago."
Many experts feel that ESC is even more important for teen drivers. If you have teen drivers in the house, putting them in an ESC-equipped car will not only save money on car insurance rates but it may possibly save their lives.
"Excessive speed and loss of control are two of the biggest factors in teen accidents," Champion notes. "ESC helps them with both of these factors."
Champion is so impressed with ESC that he predicts that the eventual transition of all teens into ESC-equipped cars will bring up to a 60 percent reduction in fatal teen accidents.
How ESC prevents auto accidents
How does ESC work? A microcomputer monitors signals from sensors, checking 25 times a second whether the steering input correctly corresponds to the direction that the car is moving. When it detects the vehicle moving in the wrong direction, it immediately reacts, strategically applying the brakes and reducing engine torque to put the car back on the desired path.
ESC was first implemented in luxury and sports cars, leveraging the same technology used in traction control and anti-lock brakes. BMW and Mercedes were the first two manufacturers to put ESC on their vehicles. American automakers followed suit when GM partnered with Delphi Corp. and in 1997 introduced StabiliTrak on certain Cadillac models.
As it became obvious to automakers that ESC prevented accidents, they increasingly added it to their model lineups under names that vary from AdvanceTrac at Ford to Vehicle Stability Control at Toyota.
In 2007 , roughly 22 percent of cars and 53 percent of pickups and SUVs came with ESC as a standard feature. By 2009, every SUV sold in the U.S. came with ESC as standard equipment.
After an extensive review of the available studies, NHTSA issued regulations that all vehicles manufactured after Sept. 1, 2011, for sale in the U.S. must be equipped with ESC as standard. Manufacturers have already moved on these requirements, according to the IIHS. In the 2011 model year, ESC was standard on 90 percent of cars, 100 percent of SUVs, and 72 percent of pickups.
Safety advocates acted even more quickly than the government. Consumer Reports will not put a vehicle on its annual Top Picks list unless ESC is available and pulled its recommendation on the 2010 Honda Civic because ESC was not available. IIHS, similarly, won't put a vehicle on its Top Safety Picks list without it.
The future of accident prevention
While ESC can often prevent a fatal crash, it does operate in the realm of physics. If a car is put into a situation that is too severe, ESC will be unable to correct it. In the last 15 years more than 7,000 vehicles equipped with ESC have been involved in fatal accidents.
Some experts fear that drivers will become overconfident now that ESC is there to catch them. Indeed, as ESC has moved from luxury and sports vehicles into more mainstream cars, its overall effectiveness estimates have dropped roughly 10 percentage points, the IIHS found.
Automakers are already working on the next big thing in crash-avoidance technology. These systems pair radar or video cameras to sensors that can predict a critical situation and correctly respond to prevent an accident. The goal, somewhere in the future, is to eliminate serious accidents.


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May not be in the rear, maybe off in front, causing the the corresponding droop in the rear.
Very true! He should also consider checking the distance from the "snubbers" or "jounce kits" to the corresponding metal contact surface an all 4 corners to help determine if the problem lies in the suspension or the body mounts/unibody. This may not work in the rear if the spring rate is soft enough that unibody twist(if any) may cause deflection in the springs. Measuring distances from wheelhouse arches to the ground CANNOT be trusted for "for sure" test results, although it can get you in the ballpark.
All of these checks should be done on an alignment rack in the presence of a well-trained technician at which time he should be able to easily determine the root of the problem. I have seen SO MANY people chase their tails on problems like this when it ended up being wasted front end parts, improper tire pressure, bad alignment(which can cause this by itself), etc. Also, "Real" alignment technicians are VERY VERY hard to find these days! Most guys just put measurements "in the green" not knowing why or the ramifications of such actions.
Ask me if needed, I averaged 8-10 alignments a day while a technician at Firestone and have been in the presence of guys like this.
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After the Lovin'
Ain't My Fault
All These Things
At Last
At This Moment
Back In Love Again
Beyond the Sea
Big Band Medley
Black Velvet
Blueberry Hill
Boogie Shoes
Boot Scootin' Boogie
Brick House
Brown Eyed Girl
Can't Get Enough of Your Love Baby
Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)
Carnival Time
Chain of Fools
Cupid Shuffle
Dock of The Bay
Don't Stop Believin'
Done Got Over
Electric Slide
Fly Me to the Moon
Forget You
Gee Whiz
Georgia On My Mind
Givin' It Up For Your Love
Got To Be Real
Harlem Shuffle
Have I Told You Lately
Higher and Higher
Hold on I'm Coming
Honky Tonk Woman
I Don't Know Why I Love You
I Got a Feelin'
I Gotta Woman
I Will Survive
I Wish
Into the Mystic
It Had to Be You
It's Alright
It's My Party
It's Raining
Just a Gigolo
Knock on Wood
Knockin' on Heaven's Door
Lady In Red
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Midnight Hour
More Today Than Yesterday
Mother In Law
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Mr. Pitiful
Mustang Sally
My Girl
Need You Now
Neither One of Us
New Orleans Ladies
New York, New York
No Parking/ Word Up
Old Time Rock and Roll
One In A Million
Pick Up The Pieces
Play That Funky Music
Pretty Woman
Pride and Joy
Purple Rain
Rolling In the Deep
Save the Last Dance for Me
Second Line
Shama Lama Ding Dong
Sick and Tired
Signed, Sealed, Delivered
So Very Hard to Go
Soul Man
Stand By Me
Sweet Caroline
Sweet Soul Music
Them Changes
These Boots are Made for Walkin'
Under the Boardwalk
Uptown Funk
Walkin the Dog
Watermelon Man
We Are Family
What A Wonderful World
Where the Boys Are
Will It Go Round In Circles
Wonderful Tonight
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I was looking at the Tioga Factory Extreme tires. There are 2 version, the FR and XC. I looked at Speedgoat site, and the difference I saw was the weight between both. I also checked for Red Phoenix, and it's lower weighted than the XC.
Besides marketing stuff, all 3 tires seem to have the same knob drawing (from looking at pics, I don't know if looking at them live and in color I will notice a difference).
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While many businesses are concerned with making sure their mobile, web and desktop applications don't contain a mission-critical bug that's a showstopper for launch, there's oftentimes an important subset of users that gets glossed over in the process – those with disabilities or other impairments. Is the software accessible to all users before it hits the market?
For instance, for those that may be visually impaired, how are buttons in an app represented so screen readers can correctly read the information contained in the button?
It's not just unfairly ignoring an entire slice of the population by not ensuring these quality standards – it's essentially ignoring the law. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), for example, carries over to digital entities including mobile applications. The accessibility of mobile apps have to follow Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2 standards including areas such as captioning and audio description.
Recently, there's been a thought-provoking conversation in the uTest Forums that examines testers' opinions on this important-but-oft-overlooked testing form. The uTester who started the conversation shared how her interest in accessibility testing was garnered from a personal experience when she was a student:
I had a friend with brittle bone disease and was blind. When she was trying to use Windows Media Player to play her music, she had to ask me to start the playlist as she had no way to navigate there herself….It shocked me to see how such a simple application was unusable to her, and the only "tool" she could use to start it was me!
One uTester echoed how affected she was by accessibility once actually immersed in a cycle:
I was also able to lead a testing effort for a mobile app that included accessibility, and months later, when I saw the users happy and loving the app, it was totally worth the effort. It was an eye-opener.
I'll take a moment here and interject opinion. This was probably my favorite part of the discussion that responded to the naysayers of accessibility testing (because it hit the nail on the head):
I can see how some testers would consider it too much trouble and not want to do it, but then again, if you were to think that about your job, are you really a tester? A true tester would see this as an opportunity.
Accessibility testing is a very important variant of Usability testing and is something we take quite seriously here at uTest. It's ultimately one of the most important and rewarding forms of testing that often gets lost in the shuffle when organizations roll out their applications for primetime.


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Utah's declining unemployment rates and bankruptcy filings appear to indicate an improving economy statewide.
The state's unemployment rate slipped to 4.5 percent and bankruptcy filings slowed slightly in April, noted the Utah Department of Workforce Services' latest Trendlines report.
And according to statistics recently released by the United States Bankruptcy Court, 1,947 Utahns filed for protection in April. The total number of bankruptcies filed by residents across the state decreased from 2,081 in March 2004 and 2,059 in April 2003. Filings for the first four months of 2004 were down 7 percent when compared to 2003.
But on a negative financial note, the high cost of building materials is pushing home prices skyward across the country and Utah, pointed out the department of workforce services report.
The most significant price hikes are occurring in plywood and wafer board. The materials are used in sub-flooring, walls and roofs. A four-by-eight sheet of seven-sixteenths-inch wafer board is selling at $19 a sheet, up 217 percent from $6 one year ago.
At the national level, a standard gauge designed to forecast the U.S. economy's performance in the upcoming months barely edged higher in April.
The U.S. Conference Board indicated that the organiz-ation's index of leading indicators climbed a slight 0.1 percent in April after posting a revised 0.8 percent gain in March.
The number of housing projects builders broke ground on dipped in April.
Nevertheless, the current level of nationwide activity suggests that the residential construction sector in the U.S. economy remains relatively healthy, explained the department of workforce services Trendlines report.
The number of residential units reported as presently underway at various locations throughout the nation clocked in at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.97 million, confirmed the U.S. Commerce Department.
The figure represents a 2.1 percent decline from the number of new residential units listed as under construction in March.
With mortgages rates on the rise, economists expect the housing market to cool in 2004 from what has been red-hot activity seen over the last several years.
The latest figures from the U.S. Energy Department put the national average for pump prices at more than $2 per gallon for the first time ever.
American economists and budget analysts estimate that every penny increase at the gasoline pump is equal to $1 billion in lost consumer spending, pointed out the latest department of workforce services report. That adds up to more than $50 billion in lost spending to date in 2004.
The latest figures on offshore out-sourcing suggest that American companies are sending more white-collar jobs to low-wage countries like India, China and Russia than researchers originally estimated, concluded the Utah Department of Workforce Services latest Trendlines report.
Roughly 830,000 U.S. service sector jobs ranging from telemarketers and accountants to software engineers and chief technology officers will move abroad by the end of 2005, according to Forrester Research Inc.
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(Blue Springs) – Paul Connors, a US Air Force veteran, is scheduled to meet with Missouri Senators Claire McCaskill and Roy Blunt in Washington, DC on July 9-11 to urge swift action on energy policies that would enhance national security.
Connors is part of a larger group known as Vets4Energy, an organization bound by veterans across the country who come from a range of branches and ranks and have served in every U.S. war and engagement since Vietnam.
Veterans from 26 different states, including Connors, will meet with their respective Senators in order to emphasize the urgency of implementing energy policies that will reduce U.S. dependency on foreign oil and strength the economy.
"To me, issues like the Keystone pipeline and unrealistic environmental regulations are common sense ways to avoid the energy security problems challenging our country," Connors said. "Veterans are very well suited for this conversation as we have first-hand knowledge of what is at stake if we become too dependent on foreign oil."
Vets4Energy is visiting Washington on behalf of America's Energy Forum, a non-partisan coalition of citizens committed to achieving energy security for the United States and holding elected officials more accountable in shaping energy policies.
Connors began serving in the Air Force in 1959 with the Security Air Police. He was then dispatched to Vietnam at Nha Trang Air Base serving there in 1966 and 1967.
After leaving the military, Connors started his own accounting firm in Missouri in 1978. Connors was the Chief Financial Officer of the State of Missouri Veterans of Foreign Wars for ten years where he managed all financial aspects of that 45,000-member organization. He was appointed by Missouri Governor Jay Nixon to the Missouri Veterans Commission in 2009 and will serve in that capacity for the next four years.


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MusicfestNW Launch Party: Chvrches, Still Corners
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[FESTIVAL TEASER] From the Department of Shameless Self Promotion: Yes, this show, aside from featuring the glistening synth-pop of rising Glaswegian trio Chvrches, is the launch party for MusicfestNW, Portland's biggest annual music festival, which this paper just happens to put on. But c'mon: I'd be excited for the lineup reveal even if I worked at that other alt-weekly. So I'm not going to lie and say the announcement isn't, perhaps, more important than the music itself. That isn't to downgrade the sleek, starry-eyed compositions of the headliners, it's just, well, thanks to my job title, I'm privy to certain information, and let me just say this: You're going to be stoked.
Where: Wonder Ballroom
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Tail Braiding? Help!!
No matter how may times I've looked at turotials and practiced, I just CANNOT seem to be able to braid the correct hunter style tail. :oops: Anybody able to post a really detailed tutorial for the braiding challenged like me?
I'm not to sure if this is hunter style but this helped me a bit
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That's perfect! Thank you. :D
It's just a french braid..this site helped me
Tail Braiding
I actually taught myself. I don't do it the "correct" way though, I turn the braid under, so the braid pops out instead of being under the hair. It's fairly easy, I always try to start with super tiny pieces so it doesn't get super chunky. Sorry, no pictures to share though.
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First appeared on 11/26/2013. Insights is also available to members via email delivery.
Pope Francis ended the Year of Faith on Sunday, with a homily on the Solemnity of Christ the King. He also completed the work of the Synod for the Year of Faith today by issuing the post-synodal Apostolic Exhortation, Evangelii Gaudium (The Joy of the Gospel).
These post-synodal documents do not tend to be very manageable for mass consumption, but I read it today and made some comments which I hope you'll find helpful: The New Apostolic Exhortation: Bothersome in more ways than one!
At the same time, of course, the Church is preparing to begin a new liturgical year. Now is the perfect time to prepare for it by browsing through our Advent Workshop.
We are also happy to announce a new Liturgical Year Blog, featuring Jennifer Gregory Miller, who was the primary developer of our liturgical year resources. The first post introduces the concept, as we prepare for Advent: The End and the Beginning: The Cycle of the Liturgical Year. ... [more content for subscribers]
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R.S. 2477 ROADS: Where wilderness is at issue, lawsuits will continue
The governor's office announced the other day that the state and counties will record a list of roads in each county that cross public lands. The purpose is to identify rights of way across federal lands granted under an 1866 law commonly known as R.S. 2477.
The announcement by Lynn Stevens, the state's public lands policy coordinator, suggested that recording these lists, coupled with an agreement now in the works with the federal Bureau of Land Management about how roads across BLM-managed lands will be maintained, would put an end to legal struggles over most of these roads in Utah.
We doubt that.
If the state and counties continue to press aggressively for rights of way on jeep trails and similar roads through sensitive federal lands in Utah where potential wilderness designation is at stake, the environmental groups will rightly continue to wage legal war against these claims. Ultimately, these disputes will have to be decided by the courts.
Congress repealed R.S. 2477 in 1976, but it grandfathered previous claims to rights of way. Unfortunately, there was never any requirement under the old law that these claims be documented. This ambiguity has led to lawsuits involving counties, the state, the BLM and environmental groups over disputed county roads across federal land.
Earlier this month, the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling in one of these suits that overturned an earlier standard for acquiring an R.S. 2477 right of way. The appellate court held that counties would have to prove that disputed rights of way had been in continuous public use for 10 years prior to 1976.
Though that ruling was a victory for the state and the counties, it seems like a stretch to say that all the counties have to do is document the roads to establish title. Lawyers on both sides of the case still are studying the court's ruling, and they are not sure what it means for the future.
For example, the court affirmed that the burden of proof is on the counties to enforce rights of way against the federal government. However, the court also said that no government act was required to accept a right of way, which could be manifested simply by continuous public use for 10 years.
Proving that use might be difficult, however, since occasional use is not sufficient.
This does not look like a road to fewer lawsuits.
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Newsweek magazine recently published this correction:
In the Feb. 6 article "Cut, Thrust and Christ," we misquoted Jerry Falwell as using the words "assault ministry." In fact, Falwell was referring to "a salt ministry," a reference to Matthew 5:13 where Jesus says "ye are the salt of the earth."
The article reported on the fact that evangelical schools are dominating the college debate competitions, with Liberty University ranked number one in the nation. Harvard University is currently ranked 14th.
Clearly, the Newsweek reporter had no concept of a "salt ministry" and simply misunderstood Dr. Falwell's statement.
Nevertheless, the mistake is really funny in its own way. An "assault ministry" or a "salt ministry?" Perhaps it is hard to tell the difference some times, when the presence and influence of salt can seem like an assault. Still, I would rather be found acting like salt, than launching an assault. May God grant us grace to know the difference.


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Martha Anne Harrelson, 71, of Green Ridge, died Saturday, Sept. 22, 2012, at her home.
She was born April 6, 1941, in Greenville, S.C., daughter of Arthur and Clara Davis McDevitt. She moved to Walnut, N.C. at age three, was raised in the mountains, and graduated high school there. She was a star basketball player and was well known in the district.
On Sept. 4, 1966, in Walnut, N.C., she married Gerald Leon Harrelson, who preceded her in death on Jan. 30, 2003. She was an Air Force wife for 20 years.
She moved to Green Ridge in 1977 and worked for Alcan Cable for several years, retiring in 2006.
Surviving are three daughters, Debra Harrelson Campbell and Lorinda Lee Harrelson, both of Lynchburg, Va.,, and Katherine Harrelson Sawford, of Green Ridge; three grandchildren, Ashley Anne Campbell-Moss, Haley Nicole Campbell Stockes and Gannon Matthew Sawford; a sister, Elizabeth Joiner, of Baton Rouge, La.; her very special and faithful companion and caregiver who never left her side, Larry Street; special friends and neighbors, Randy, Jan and Sunnie Magnuson; and nieces and nephews.
In addition to her husband and parents, she was preceded in death by a nephew.
Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday, at Heckart Funeral Home, with Rev. Sandy Feeler officiating.
Casket bearers will be Randy Magnuson, Ken Bunker, Ken Tillman, Randy Scotten, Kelly Harding and Jeremy Harbison.
The family will receive friends from 10 a.m. until service time Wednesday, at Heckart Funeral Home.
Memorial contributions are suggested to American Cancer Society.


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Release: 5457-08
For Release: February 14, 2008
Washington, DC – The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced that Paradigm Capital Management LLC (PCM) of New York, a registered with Commodity Pool Operator, will pay a $75,000 civil monetary penalty for failing to distribute and file its commodity pools' annual reports in a timely manner.
Specifically, the CFTC order finds that PCM, as a CPO for commodity pools that operate as funds-of-funds, failed to distribute to pool participants and file with the National Futures Association one or more of its commodity pools' annual reports in a timely manner, in violation of a CFTC regulation.
An annual report is designed to "provide [pool] participants with the information necessary to assess the overall trading performance and financial condition of the pool." (See Commodity Pool Operators and Commodity Trading Advisors, Final Rules, 44 Fed. Reg. 1918 (CFTC Jan. 8, 1979) (announcing the adoption of Rule 4.22).) Without timely reporting, the CFTC's goal of providing pool participants with complete and necessary data is hampered.
The following CFTC Division of Enforcement staff were responsible for this case: Linda Y. Peng, David MacGregor, Lenel Hickson, Jr., Stephen J. Obie, and Vincent McGonagle.
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|What does it mean when Allah says in the Quran "There is no compulsion in religion"?
|Dr. Shabir Ally
Salam Dear Sister,
Thank you for your question and for contacting Ask About Islam.
The verse cited in this respect is in the second chapter of the Quran, the two hundred and fifty-sixth verse:
{There is no compulsion in religion. The Right Way stands clearly distinguished from the wrong. Hence he who rejects the evil ones and believe in Allah has indeed taken hold of the firm, unbreakable handle. And Allah (Whom he has held for support) is All-Hearing, Al—Knowing.} (Al-Baqara 2:256)
When it says "there is no compulsion in religion", it is stated in an absolute manner. And the verse continues to say: {The Right Way stands clearly distinguished from the wrong}, which implies that guidance has been made plain and distinct from the error.
Watch Dr. Shabir Ally's Answer:
God has made His message plain, the truth and error are now distinct and there is no need to compel anyone to be this or that (religion). In fact, it would be wrong to compel anyone.
If you compel somebody to be a Muslim then they wouldn't really be a Muslim, because to be a Muslim means that you have to be a Muslim at heart.
The classical Muslim scholars said that it involves the affirmation by the tongue and also the conviction of the mind; the two things have to come together.
So you can only force a person to confess verbally and say: "Yes, I am Muslim; yes I declare the testimony of faith of Islam." But then, in their mind, there belief could be something contrary to that.
Since that is what is required, then how can you compel somebody to be a Muslim? It is really impossible; you will be just fooling yourself if you think you can compel someone to be a Muslim.
Q: What about internally within the faith, for example somebody who is already a Muslim; does this verse also apply to them?
A: Yes, because the verse is taken in an absolute manner; however, we should know that those scholars in the past who have said that you can, in a way, compel the Muslim who is already a Muslim, to remain as a Muslim; meaning that if they apostated from the religion then the penalty is death.
They acknowledge that this means they are compelling them to stay in the faith; they said, well this verse no longer applies.
Which means that they are subscribing to a belief that there are certain verses in the Quran which were once given and whose rulings applied at the time, but though the verses remain in the Quran, their rulings no longer apply.
Often they will say that there are some other verses in the Quran that abrogates this one, and gives a new ruling such that this one is repealed, or that some saying or practice of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) shows that this verse no longer applies because the Prophet (peace be upon him) himself was not following this verse, at least in his later life.
But that doctrine of abrogation, to understand that some verses in our existing text of the Quran, somehow should be ignored, and that its legal ruling should not be put into effect, is disputed by many scholars in our present times, because when we look back in the history of this idea, you see that the authentic sayings of the Prophet (peace be upon him) cannot be brought to show that such a doctrine is valid, and the words of the Quran themselves show that the Quran should have lasting applicability; these are the words of God and they cannot be simply pushed away by any sort of imagination of anyone.
Somebody imagines that this verse is abrogated or this other verse is abrogated, and what authority do they imagine to make these pronouncements?
So since there is no authentic pronouncement from the Prophet (peace be upon him) himself to validate this doctrine, and the Quranic text itself seems to be very general and absolute, that is what should hold the day.
And this verse in particular says in a very broad manner "la ikraha fiddin", "there is no compulsion in religion", and so it should apply across the board.
I hope this helps answer your question.
Useful links:
Psychological Compulsion in Religion
Verses on Freedom of Faith: Abrogated?
Did Muhammad Spread Islam by the Sword?
Does the Qur'an Teach Tolerance? Dr Badawi Answers


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Did you know that it costs the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation $507,000.00 to construct a new Bocce Court? Doesn't this seem to be a tad bit too expensive?
Last week I attended a meeting of Queens Community Board 7's Parks Committee. The Parks Department came before the committee to get approval on three projects. The first project was to construct an additional Bocce Court in Bowne Park right next to the existing Bocce Court. You can imagine my shock and dismay when Parks Department representatives said it was going to cost tax payers $507,000.00 to construct the new court. How could adding some new benches, creating a court out of wood, cement, etc. cost taxpayers $507,000.00?
Equally shocking WAS the fact that construction of the court would take about a year, and the existing court would be closed for the entire time the new court is built. What this means is that residents of Queens County who use the old bocce court will have to be inconvenienced by having to go somewhere else to play Bocce for a year. This seems to be a bit harsh. Surely the Parks Department could find a contractor to build this new court cheaper and much quicker than one year.
When members of the committee questioned Parks as to why the cost to construct the court was so high, they merely answered, "because that's how much it costs." That type of answer is unacceptable. Another project that came before the committee that night was the renovation of a historic building in Fort Totten Park, where the total cost for the renovation would be well over one million dollars. While I can understand the high costs of repairing a historic building, I cannot understand nor accept the cost of $507,000.00 for a Bocce Court.
What that meeting showed me is that the New York City Department of Parks and recreation lacks transparency and accountability. In a bad economy, we must ensure that all projects are spending the taxpayers money wisely. (Did you know that the Parks Department takes 1/3 of the total cost of the project off the top for what they call design services. The public has no idea where that money goes or what it's being used for.)
There are many other parks projects in Queens that people have questioned how the funds are being spent. I felt it was time someone brought attention to this problem. I call upon Comptroller John Liu to do an immediate audit of the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation expenses to ensure that our parks are being taken care of properly and that our taxpayer money is spent wisely.
Matthew Silverstein is the Democratic State Committeeman of the 26th AD and the 2nd Vice President of the Bay Terrace Community Alliance


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VIDEO: Vospers host 4x4 driving day at Newnham Park
Posted: January 27, 2014|
The Westcountry may be 4x4 country but how many of us really know how to drive properly and get the most of them once we leave dry tarmac?
It is easy to forget many drivers of these capable cars do little more than a daily commute, local shop or school run in them and the closest most get to going off road is bumping over the kerb outside the school gates, let alone trying to tackle floods, ice and snow when autumn and winter arrive.
So Vospers recently gave some customers an opportunity to really put some 4x4s to the ultimate test with an off road driving day at Newnham Park, Plymouth.
Nick Agg-Manning of Outdoor Adventure Consultants, and his team, woke up in the morning rubbing their hands together, while the rest of us were simply wishing we could just close the curtains and go back to bed. The rain had been lashing against my windows all night and the forecast for the day was for more heavy rain, perfect conditions for off roading.
Vospers supplied a selection of 4x4s, ranging from the Jeep Wrangler, down to the basic Fiat Panda 4x4, with family favourites, Ford Kuga and Mazda CX-5 in the middle.
First up was the Jeep Cherokee, with all the electronic wizardry you would expect on a Range Rover. With settings for snow, sand, rocks, mud, hill descent and the option of a low range gearing, for those steep inclines.
Nick was on hand in the passenger seat to talk through each setting when needed. As we approached the first steep incline, Nick asked me to stop, and select low range and hill descent, with a puzzled look on my face, "Hill decent on, I thought we were going up the hill, not down".
"We put hill decent on just in case we get stuck half way up, and have to come back down, it's one less thing to think about" said Nick.
So off I went up the incline like I was driving up Telegraph Hill on the A38, albeit a bit slower. The Jeep didn't even break sweat, and this was with standard road tyres. Then I had my first experience of hill descent. "Just point the car down the hill and take your feet off all the pedals, all you have to do is keep it in a straight line" said Nick. It's all very alien especially as when you first go over it takes what seems like 2 or 3 seconds before the system kicks in, my right foot did make a move to the brake pedal. In technology we trust, and I must say it worked a treat, the car descended the hill the same way in went up it, without a fuss.
Next up was the Ford Kuga, all this car had to help was Intelligent All-Wheel Drive (AWD), and Ford's Electronic Stability Programme (ESP), no hill descent control, low range gearing or multiple setting for the AWD. Just AWD and an auto gearbox with the option just put it in sport mode, which lets you manually select a gear.
As we faced the same steep incline the Jeep cruised up like it wasn't there, with its settings for every condition, all we had in the Kuga was AWD and ESP. Again we stopped at the bottom and Nick instructing me to put it in sport and select 2nd gear, the only difference to the Jeep was we had to avoid a few of the bigger ruts as the ground clearance wasn't as good, but apart from that it didn't miss a beat, again on standard road tyres.
Now for the return journey, back down the very muddy and ice like mud hill, without hill descent, this is going to be a bit tricky I thought. But Nick knew his stuff, telling me to keep it in second and just cover the brake pedal this time, and let the engine braking control the decent, and once again we arrived at the bottom right side.
Nick and his team off instructors were great and really showed me what these cars are capable of. I was really amazed at how capable they were, especially as they were fitted with road tyres and didn't even show any signs of getting stuck. And yes even the humble Fiat Panda could make it up and down the hill, without a fuss.
So the next time the snow comes and I'm stuck at the bottom of a slight hill in my front wheel drive car, going nowhere fast, I'll wish I had a 4x4.