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The proposal raised eyebrows: A member of the Vermont House of Representatives named Fred Maslack from Poultney introduced a measure that would require all adult Vermonters to either own a gun or pay a yearly $500 fee.
If you surfed the Internet over the past week, youd swear this was breaking news. Its been all over Facebook. An Ithaca Journal outdoors columnist wrote about it last week. The gun enthusiast blogosphere was ablaze with the news.
In fact, Maslack introduced the bill in January 2000, and the proposal quickly died. Maslack has not been a Vermont lawmaker for a decade now.
But the ideae lives on in a perpetual Night of the Living Dead on the Internet. Almost every year since Maslacks ill-fated gun proposal, people have breathlessly reported on the would-be law as if it were the first time anybody has heard such a thing.
The Ithaca outdoor columnist, Dave Henderson, said he was hoodwinked when he found what appeared to be a new Associated Press story about the Maslack bill on the Internet. He has since learned that either the AP didnt write the article or the news organization did back in 2000, but not recently. He said he will post a correction in his next column.
The Ithaca Journal, like the Burlington Free Press, is owned by Gannett Co. Inc. It receives Hendersons column via syndication, much like the Ann Landers column in the Free Press, and it was not edited in house, said Bruce Estes, the managing editor of the Ithaca Journal.
Other online outlets are running with the story. The blog Gunowners of America bills itself as The only no-compromise pro-gun blog on the Web. It reported the Maslack story, complete with a tweet about it, over the weekend. The Houstonian online published a column about the Maslack proposal, as if it were new, on Dec. 4.
This is just the latest flurry of Maslack gun law stories. Several blogs carried the story in October 2009, early 2010, off and on in 2011 and in June and November of this year.
Many of the citations on Maslacks proposal appear to come from the same mysterious publication. For instance, dozens of websites and blogs have this passage, unattributed to anyone:
Vermont State Rep. Fred Maslack has read the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, as well as Vermonts own Constitution very carefully, and his strict interpretation of these documents is popping some eyeballs in New England and elsewhere.
Maslack could not be reached for comment.
Jeff Soyer, who writes the Vermont-based gun enthusiasts blog site Alphecca.com, said hes exasperated by the eternal life of the Maslack proposal story. He wrote a Dec. 4 blog post pointing out the Maslack story was essentially an urban legend, and not based on current reality.
It is continually rediscovered by those wishing to believe it could come true, he said in a subsequent email exchange with the Burlington Free Press. Some of them will unfortunately grasp at any wishful-thinking news that can support their cause without doing any basic research into it.
Even if the Maslack proposal were currently under consideration, Soyer said he wouldnt support it because he doesnt believe the government should compel people to buy things or pay a fine for not doing so.
Cindy Ellen Hill, a Middlebury lawyer and writer, said shes well aware the gun law story is very old news, but she is happy that it keeps bubbling back to the surface.
She said the issue raises the question of whether language in the Vermont Constitution requires residents to be ready to serve in a citizen militia if necessary. Or is that role fulfilled by the State Police and National Guard, with taxpayer money fulfilling Vermonters duty to support that protection? Hill asked.
As an attorney and passionate devotee of constitutional law and particularly of civil rights, I am personally thrilled that this issue has arisen in the media once again for a very simple reason: It will drive at least some people to actually pick up and read the Vermont Constitution, and engage in public discourse regarding its meaning and its relevancy to the state we live in today, she wrote, responding to a message left to her via Facebook.
In any event, if you missed the Maslack gun story, dont worry. It could pop up again.
Contact Matt Sutkoski at 660-1846 or msutkoski@burlington
freepress.com. Follow Matt on Twitter at www.twitter.com/vermont


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When Jeremy Lin got injured earlier this year, I believed he had the skills to make a strong return. In his brief but successful stint last season, Lin did not rely solely on athleticism, as many NBA players do. Instead, Lin was taking advantage of a very strong jump shot. The threat of his jump shot often forced players to play up on him, which helped Lin to get by perimeter defenders more easily. This has been Chris Paul's formula for success since returning from injury, and it's allowed Steve Nash to remain elite offensively despite slowing down with age.
Last season, Lin ranked in the top-7 in the NBA among point guards in FG% from 10-15 feet and 16-23 feet. He was more accurate from these distances than many household names, such as Chris Paul, Deron Williams, Tony Parker, Derrick Rose, and Russell Westbrook. He demonstrated a jump shot that deserved to be respected, and teams adjusted accordingly.
After shooting a spectacular 45.9% on 2-point jump shots through his first 23 games as a starter last year, Lin shot 20% on 2-point jump shots through his last three games. The suddenly awful jump shot seemed inexplicable at the time, but it was passed off as a brief shooting slump. After all, three games are nearly meaningless statistically. Later, however, an MRI revealed that Lin had a torn meniscus, which sidelined him for six months. It was possible that his awful shooting was related to this injury.
Thus, there were no major red-flags regarding Lin's jump shot coming into this season, if looking only at his NBA resume. Everyone knew about the turnovers, but he has managed to take care of the ball better than last season (18% turnover percent, down from 21%). His assist percent to turnover percent ratio is not that different from the ratios belonging to Mike Conley and Brandon Jennings. Despite this improvement, he's been a much worse player; the crux of his offensive repertoire, his jump shot, has disappeared.
What started as a three-game problem last season has now extended through twelve games this year. Lin is shooting 22% on jump shots this season, and it doesn't get any prettier regardless of how you break it down.
Of the 16 jump shots Lin has made this season, 11 have been assisted. That may not sound strange, until you consider that only 12 of his 75(!) 2-point jump shots last season were assisted. Last season's Lin possessed a very rare skill, which is precisely why I thought he could bounce back strong from his injury.
He had the ability to make jump shots off the dribble at a very high clip, which is arguably the most difficult thing to do in the NBA. This season, Lin can't hit any kind of jump shots. He's 2 for 17 on short jumpers, and he never was a great 3-point shooter. He's shooting terribly whether he spots up or pulls up off the dribble.
It is possible that Lin simply isn't healthy yet, as some suggested at the start of the season. Maybe his problems are psychosomatic; perhaps the injury is holding him back mentally more than physically. Or maybe Lin isn't very good. After all, Linsanity lasted about 26 games, and Lin wasn't very good at the end of that stretch, as I mentioned earlier. It is still too early in this season, and in Lin's career, to truly know which is correct. I know many in the NBA and in New York are rooting for Lin to be awful, but I thoroughly enjoyed his rise from obscurity to prominence last season. For Lin to experience success again, he has to start by regaining the shooting success he had last season.
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Jackson Liberty showed Saturday it is a program on the move as it crowned three champions and finished second in the team standings in the Neptune Classic at Neptune High School.
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Bo Hoag Fires Second Round in the 60's, Buckeyes Tied for 10th at Pacific Invitational
Freshman from Upper Arlington tied for ninth at 7-under 137
COLUMBUS, Ohio The Ohio State men's golf team shot a team score of 286 (-2) in the second round to move to a tie for 10th with a tournament total of 8-under 586 Tuesday at the SSC Pacific Invitational in Stockton, Calif. The three-day, 54-hole event is being held at the par 72, 6,720-yard Brookside Country Club. The Buckeyes remain tied with Brigham Young with Kansas State continuing to leave the tournament at 547 (-29).
Freshman Bo Hoag fired his second-consecutive round in the 60's with a score of 68. The native of Upper Arlington, Ohio, had six birdies and was 3-under on the back nine en route to his fourth round under par in the fall season. He held his place in the individual standings in a tie for ninth with a score of 137 (-7).
Two Buckeyes carded rounds of 73, with freshman Brad Smith and senior Zach Sebert each recording the score. Smith, a native of Peru, Ind., competing in his first collegiate tournament, is tied for 38th with an even 144. The 73 for Sebert, a co-captain from Grove City, Ohio, was his second of the tournament to tie for 47th at 146.
Rounding out the Ohio State competitors are sophomore Patrick Simard and senior Kyle Coconis. Simard is tied for 35th at 143 after posting a second round of 74. Coconis shot the second-lowest OSU round for the day with an even 72 to move a tie for 59th with a total of 146.
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Romney seems like a nice guy. I've never met a Mormon that didn't seem like a great honest person.
But they believe god is human (well flesh and blood), and lives in outer space, and has multiple wives, and has and will elevate other humans to the status of "God."
This is not Christian. This is a perversion of Christianity.
Are we about to elect the Anti-Christ?
Why does everybody think they will know the Anti-Christ when it comes? That they won't be fooled. Do we expect red-skin and horns?
Yes "I know this sounds nuts.." , You are NUTS.
You should be worried about US becoming insolvent.
Romeny will cut MEDICARE. The biggest social drain on this country, and rising with the aging population.
Romney is our only hope at cutting off MEDICARE !!!!!
I'm a bit upset that he included me, a retired manufacturing worker, in the 47% moocher class just because I don't currently pay taxes. I support Romney, but I've never taken a penny of government assistance. It's insulting.
TO: "Billy Smith" 9:32.
Sorry, but you have taken government assistance................................... if you use Medicare.
Medicare is 2/3rds "social welfare." It is 2/3rds paid for out of the general federal budget just like any other welfare program. Only 1/3rd of Medicare is paid for by the "Medicare Tax" you used to pay.
We really can't afford making 2/3rds of healthcare free, just because people are old and didn't save their money.
@ I know this will sound nuts......
Fooling everybody (or 99.9%) is precisely the way you would expect the Anti-Christ to rise to power. There is no other way. Christian leaders would obviously be fooled too.
But I'm an atheist, so....... ha ha.. YES YOU ARE NUTS
Ha Ha @I know this will sound nuts
Wait until Bobby Jindal is the GOP candidate for President.
He will have posters of the Indian God Ganesha for us to worship.
no cutting Medicare.
Do you think our collectivist socialist leader will cut our largest "social welfare" program - Medicare?
Humm. Do you.
Is "Swing-State Math" something like Al Gore's "fuzzy math"?
No one trusts these pools anymore, especially when they come from a liberal source.
Ohio is going BLUE. Go retire in Cayman Islands !!
I agree. There's only one polling/information source we can trust in - Fox News. Fair and balanced - they report, you decide
Obama is very likely to win re-election for the following reasons.
1. Everyone remembers the blood bath that was taking place in the jobs numbers and in the financial and housing markets when Obama took office. They remember the Bush bailouts. They still blame the republicans for the mess even if they think Obama should have done more to fix it. The fact the the dopes like McConnell made a PUBLIC point of saying that the only objective the Republicans had from the start was to end Obama's presidency kinda makes the fact that Obama has not done more to succeed look like it is at least partially the fault of the Republicans.
2. Romney is just insincere. David Brookes was right. He is a non ideologue with an ideological base and he cannot move to the middle without ticking them off. His history of pro choice and Romneycare do not fit with his current positions. If he thinks that Obamacare needs to be changed but not fully repealed, fine, say so and lead people to your position. Do not flip flop.. If you do not care about the abortion issue and lean pro choice....Heck..OK...I disagree with you but make your case as to why we should ignore your position or follow it. DO NOT FLIP FLOP! He has created a situation where you cannot trust what he says from the left, right or middle.
Stephanie, Obama's main campaign person, says that women will vote for him and not look at what he has done the last 4 years, but the promises he is making now. Hmmm......
Yep, keep em dumb, the democrats way.
Bet these gals don't even know that he promised to decrease family insurance premiums by 2,500 a year, and in his first term....Kaiser reports that they have gone UP by 3,000 a year. Depends on whose news you watch.
According to my right wing friends, this reporting on polls by the left leaning rag the WSJ is just more evidence of the vast lamestream media conspiracy to re-elect the Presdient. LOL!!!
Obama is likely to win the election because the liberal msm plays down everything he does wrong, and blows up every statement Romney makes...over and over.
1) FYI, the economy is still in bad shape, with women and minorities being hit the hardest under Obama, and do you remember which party was behind the housing crisis? Does fannie and freddie ring a bell? Democrats? Let's talk about bailouts...I was against them when Bush started them, and Obama, like he outspent Bush, also outbailed Bush...so if you want to complain about Bush, remember to complain about Obama too, because he did a whole lot more spending and bailing than Bush did. Keep your facts straight.
2) Obama is insincere. He has a list of flip flops that makes Romney's pale. So, if you don't like flip floppers, why would you support a guy who???.....
voted against raising the debt ceiling as a senator, then supported raising it last year?...or campaigned against Bush tax cuts, then extended all of them....or promised to cut the deficit in half his first term, then proposed trillion dollar deficits....or promised shovel ready jobs, then admitted they were not shovel ready....or promised NO PORK in the stimulus, then filled it full....or said that lobbyists would work at the WH, then gave them waivers to work there.....or promised transparency, yes health care negotiations on live tv, then reversed his promise....or said that if you like your health care plan you can keep it, then dumped seniors off of Medicare advantage, and is about to dump us all in a public exchange...or promised that if we spent x amount of dollars his way, the unemployment would stay below 8 %....then it broke 10....or that he said that Bush violated the constitution, then wiretapped, detained, operated in secret, quadrupled drone attacks, kept Gitmo open, that he vowed to close...and voted against the Patriot act then supported it's extension.
There are more...and as I said if you don't like flip-floppers, surely you cannot push the button for Obama/Biden?????
The liberal media has them brainwashed to where they don't even know what Obama does wrong. Then they want to complain about Romney in certain regards, when their guy is worse.
Dear I Know this Sounds Nuts, did you read and, more importantly, think about what you wrote? You are equally superstitious and to make matters worse, you believe that your religion is the single true religion. By implication, you then condemn more than half the world's population. Any wonder now why others who believe just as passionately as you in their religion actively condemn Western values? Still don't get it, do you? Moron.
Just watch the view...they will tell you all you need to know.
who is worried about fiscal issues, isn't worried about Medicaid and welfare, a bigger slice of the pie.
Clear to see he is merely a lefty, trying to entertain himself.
what "Todd' isn't factoring into the equation, is that Medicare recipients "take" nothing...they were mandated, yes, extorted, to have money withdrawn from their life earnings....and with a promise.
So, does Todd think the gov should extort money, then break promises?
Then you must like Obama, if you don't like Medicare, because he stole 716 billion of Medicare dollars, from seniors and working folks....to redistribute, so that his Obamacare could come to fruition.
Oh for crying out loud, the media is not liberal. It's a business and in an attempt to make money it positions its reporting accordingly, so condemn capitalism. Second, if it is liberal, then notice that "all" the medial share this trait, as you believe. Maybe it's because it's the most intellectually honest? Taught in colleges nationwide whereas conservative bias is not? Again, why? And again, maybe because it involves a certain degree of curiosity and intellectual rigor that is absent from the conservatism. You know as well as everyone else that conservatism has never been keen on "learning."
You know a tree by the fruit it bears...Romney has practiced his faith with kindess and support of others. He gives boatloads to charity.
OTOH, I can't think of one testimonial given about Obama and how he helped friends, neighbors, etc, in their times of need.
Romney, has a resume full of them.
You know a tree by the fruit it bears...and Obama is out for himself. He has been taught division...and he practices it well. Raised Muslim with 20 years of black liberation theology under his belt, and a chip on his shoulder that is apparent in his own book.
Give me the Mormon who walks the walk.
Rosie, google newsprism...and look at the red and the blue, then get back with us.
Let me get this straight, you rightwingers brag about wanting to cut Medicare and expect your candidates to get elected?
"Vote for me so I can cut your benefits" is the worse campaign slogan in history.
If you nut cases don't want to pay taxes, don't want government interference in your lives, don't want the government to provide health care, believe everyone should take complete care of themselves and if you fail to do so then you die, etc., they move to a country where government intrusion is minimal, like Somalia.
When the 2 videos surfaced, 47 % for Romney and Redistribute for Obama, studies done, showed 6 minutes of time, and a few stories on Obama...vs 6 + hours spent on Romney's video and 10 times the stories, in the liberal msm.
Geesh, anybody with a brain figured that one out in the last election. How Obama had a closet full of skeletons that were not addressed, or quickly swept under the rug, while they focused on Palin's pregnant teenage daughter, and things that she never even really said.
Many more stories on high gas prices, trying to tie them to Bush under his adminstration...and suddenly, LOL, high gas prices are not advertised, and are certainly not the president's fault.
Rosie....step away from msnbs and cnn for a while...they don't tell the whole story.
Oh, did you even know that your own DNC, a few weeks ago, posted Russian war ships behind the speaking 4 star admiral?
I doubt that you did...the libbies didn't advertise their huge mistake.
Um, wake up....no republican is bragging about cutting Medicare.
Obama is the guy who just stole 716 billion out of it...but hey, Maddow didn't even know that, and was a bit shocked when she had to face the fact.
that tom is not a republican, but probably a figment of a liberal poster's imagination.
I am sorry you are offended by the 47% remark. But the truth of the matter is we all may end up not paying taxes at some point in our lives. The problem is - that it is now almost 50%. That is not sustainable. There are so many people who complain of the rich. well without the rich you could not benefit fromt he programs the government is now offering. Someone has to pay. Under the Obama administration that pool keeps shrinking. Soon noone is going to pay and we will end up bankrupt. Is that what you really want?
Republicans believe in safety nets, but not government as the answer to everything, and a fiscal way of life, cradle to grave.
They don't even understand the math, and think that taxing the rich will end problems.
At cost of near a trillion a year, taking ALL of our millionaire's money would give us enough to support welfare and it's programs for...not even a year.
not more welfare...obama isn't going forward. he slammed it in reverse.
WOW, this is really news. Because according to Conservative Talk Radio and Fox prime time line up, the Imaginary Polls have Romney winning on all fronts!
The punny part is, these are YOUR POLLS that have PRESIDENT Obama (yes thats how you are supposed to adress his name wsj writers) ahead in every state that matters. The GOP is dilusional if they think they're gettin obama out this election.
The pollsters can be trusted about as much as the rating agencies can be trusted for slapping triple A ratings on all the MBS crap underwritten by the big banks. And like the rating agencies, the pollsters happily accept the fees from the likes of wsj/NBC and every other liberal rag news agency(fox included).
Watch as we get closer to election day the polls will miraculously, begin showing Romney ahead. The pollsters will be telling us 20 ways to Wednesday why this is happening. How do you think jimmy carter feels about polls?
The 'news' right now is so totally biased and inaccurate the general populace doesn't have a clue. The other fact is that the 'polls' are based on the turnout of 2008 and that is a grossly inaccurate assumption upon which to base 2012 numbers. Regardless, the biggest problem is going to be voter fraud and so long as 'early voting', states with no ID laws, and other factors designed to enalbe fraud are present, it will be a significant factor. And, it will favor the known fraudsters. The Democrats.
Romney is in a margin-of-error race with an incumbent President. An honest press would report this as very bad news for the incumbent, not as "Obama Retains an Advantage".
Do you relize that rupert murdoch ownes BOTH WSJ and NBC.and he is the most right winged republican out there? or do you just talk to hear yourself speak
yea because i cant think of any republican names associated with voter fraud... (Cough* bush Cough*)
Yet more efforts by the news division of Pravda...er, the Wall Street Journal...to try to discourage Romney voters from going to the polls. Meanwhile, some Pravda...er, Wall Street Journal...reporter sitting in her/his living room just wrote a blog about the news "event" of the year in the form of the Obamas' appearance on The View.
Polls talk to 13% more libs than Republicans ad the race is witihn the margin of error?????????????? Smells like victory in the morning to me. Go Mitt!
Murdoch owns the papers, not the reporters. Fox is by far more conservative but they hire the same liberal pollsters the the MSM uses.
every other poll shows huge leads for obama in ohio, florida, virginia... but wsj bunched up a few states to show that romney is still in the race?
what will media not do to get their dirty advertising dollars..
this race is OVER.. everybody and his brother could see the romney dummy that republicans want to push on us..
that, after the gwbush disaster!
all romney knows is how to open blind accounts in the islands in order to cheat the us government to save on taxes..
only the ideologue republicans look the other way. anyone with a braind sees that for what it is.
What do you think we have now? This administration has tried everything it can to neuter religion! They lost in court when they tried to tell the church that the government can force them to take people that violate the tenets of their religion as pastors or priests. I could just see them forcing a mosque to have a homosexual imam.
"all romney knows is how to open blind accounts in the islands in order to cheat the us government to save on taxes"
If you don't think the rich democrats do the same thing your delusional. If the law lets them then you have no argument.
Pres Obama is losing! Look at the sampling methodology!
The sampling methodology is to sample 110 registered Dems for every 100 Repubs in the poll.
In a swing state poll, if it takes 10 extra Dems to give the President a 2 point lead, Pres O is losing!
Plus, Repub turnout will win the day for conservatives.
God has chosen President Obama,again. End of story.
Obama is Bush on steroids.
If that is the case, He is punishing us for how we have put Him in the back seat.
The only way Obama can lose is if he totally blows it in the debates. True, as sitting President, there are simply things on defense and foreign policy he will nat be able to talk about while Romney is free to his usual B.S. I'm still worried about Romney and Netanyahu wanting to go to war with Iran. They simply haven't htought of the thtoal consequences.
Mitt is really winning this thing. All the polls show that Mitt is wining by at least 5-10 points nationwide. This election is going to show that pandering to the right wing nut cases is the way to win an election.
In Feb 2008, obama the liar, told huge crowds that he would lower thier family health care bill by $2500/ family and that he would do it by the end of 4 yrs. Wellll...all you idiots that voted him in....the family insurance has gone UP an overage of $2370/family.
O must GO
Isn't it time to get rid of the electoral college? I am sick of my vote not even mattering. I live in California.
Your figures are all wrong. Now that you know that, vote for Obama unless you have millions.
As we dig into these polls more they are disproportionately filled with dems when ckmoared to the actual electorate by some 15% points. Yet Obama only maintains a 2% lead even with thag. Also the margin of error is at least +/- 2%. How the liberal media loves to swing things one wah....
please report credibly and stop the one sided games!!!
Romney will win by about 7 points
The main reason only 54% of people currently pay federal income tax is the Republican policy of the child tax credit, which is a good policy, since it gives people more incentive to work, even for low wage, instead of simply collecting welfare.
@ Fact
Perhaps the reason Obama's redistribution comment did not get more attention was because it was from 1998.
@heytodd among others
It has repeatedly been debunked that Obama took 700b from Medicare payee's. he did SAVE 700b by reducing waste/payments to healthcare providers, effectively saving us all money.
Romney-Ryan will win by a landslide. These polls put up by biased, dishonest pollsters are totally fraudulent. They poll several more democrats than they do Republicans. Check out unskewedpolls for further details.
Unfortunately, Latinos are wagging their tails after Obama basically through them a bone (education for kids born in the U.S. through no fault of their own. I am happy for them, but I am not fooled by this man who is an out right Marxist Communist. I fear for my family because we are Christians and he and his bullies are anti Christian. Shame on veterans who vote for this communist.
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Проверить этот СЃРєСЂРёРїС' можно нажав РєРЅРѕРїРєСѓ "Рзменить РёРєРѕРЅРєСѓ" - вместо логотипа сайта РІ адресной строке появится РёРєРѕРЅРєР° "часы" (FF, Opera):
Хочу также обратить ваше внимание на библиотеку favicon.js, которая способна не только изменять иконки, но также делать простые анимации, изменять заголовок страницы, делать бегущую строку в заголовке. Примеры использования этой библиотеки:
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favicon.change("/icon/active.ico", "new title");
// установка иконки
favicon.change("/icon/active.ico"); // leaves title alone. Cancels any animation.
// установка заголовка, иконка без изменения
favicon.change(null, "new title"); // leaves icon alone. Cancels any scrolling.
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// между циклами будет вставляться пустая иконка
favicon.animate(icon1.ico", "icon2.ico", ...]);
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favicon.scrollTitle("new title");
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favicon.scrollTitle("new title", { delay: 200, gap: "------"} )
// отмена бегущей строки и анимации
Узнать больше о библиотеке можно здесь (англ). Скачать скрипт. Демо.
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Porous silicon microcavities: synthesis, characterization, and application to photonic barcode devices
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1 Centro de Tecnologías Físicas, Unidad Asociada ICMM/CSIC-UPV, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Av. Los Naranjos s/n, Valencia, 46022, Spain
2 Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid CSIC, Madrid, 28049, Spain
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Nanoscale Research Letters 2012, 7:497 doi:10.1186/1556-276X-7-497Published: 3 September 2012
We have recently developed a new type of porous silicon we name as porous silicon colloids. They consist of almost perfect spherical silicon nanoparticles with a very smooth surface, able to scatter (and also trap) light very efficiently in a large-span frequency range. Porous silicon colloids have unique properties because of the following: (a) they behave as optical microcavities with a high refractive index, and (b) the intrinsic photoluminescence (PL) emission is coupled to the optical modes of the microcavity resulting in a unique luminescence spectrum profile. The PL spectrum constitutes an optical fingerprint identifying each particle, with application for biosensing.
In this paper, we review the synthesis of silicon colloids for developing porous nanoparticles. We also report on the optical properties with special emphasis in the PL emission of porous silicon microcavities. Finally, we present the photonic barcode concept.


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Batter up, "Survivor" fans — baseball legend Jeff Kent is stepping onto the field!
CBS announced the cast for its upcoming 25th season of "Survivor" on Monday (August 20), a list that includes the former National League Most Valuable Player and another familiar face in the form of Lisa Whelchel, best known for playing Blair Warner on "The Facts of Life." The two will compete alongside 13 other new players positioned across three tribes when the new season, set in the Philippines, debuts on September 19 with a 90-minute episode.
Kent and Whelchel are hardly the first famous faces to join the "Survivor" family. Football legends Gary Hogeboom and Jimmy Johnson previously played the game to mixed results. (Hogeboom was the 12th contestant voted out in "Guatemala," while Johnson was evicted third during his season.) Professional poker player Jean-Robert Bellande and professional wrestler Ashley Massaro both competed on "Survivor: China" as well. In all cases, the issue of how fame might impact their chances in the game weighed heavily on these players. In interviews with Entertainment Weekly, both Kent and Whelchel confessed that they're going through similar dilemmas over the star power they bring to the game.
"I'm not going to volunteer it, but at the same time, even though there are a lot of young people and I'm sure they have no idea who Blair Warner is, there are some older people and even if only one knows it certainly will get around, so I won't deny it," Whelchel said about how she plans to use her reputation in the game.
Kent, for his part, said, "You know, there are not many tall white guys with mustaches walking around still these days. I'm hoping my reputation's not big enough that these people know who I am."
Beyond Kent and Whelchel, other "Survivor: Philippines" contestants include 25 year-old bartender Malcolm Freberg, 41 year-old sex therapist Denise Stapley, and former Miss Delaware Katie Hanson. Additionally, three yet-to-be-revealed returning players are in the mix this season. All three of these contestants previously exited the game due to medical emergencies, a clue that significantly narrows the list of possible returnees. Their identities will be revealed later this week.
Tell us what you think of the "Survivor" cast thus far in the comments below or hit me up on Twitter @roundhoward!


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Well, that was fun! First off, we would like to thank everyone who submitted to our first monthly Short Film Contest here at Hammer to Nail. With 70 entries, the competition became ridiculously stiff ridiculously quickly. Whether comedy or drama or documentary or experimental freak-out, each and every submission had merit, to the point where it was difficult enough to settle on six finalists, let alone pick a winner and runner-up. Thankfully, this month's judges were up to the task, even though they too admitted to being very impressed with the films that they watched (I should know, I was one of them). So let's get right to it. Remember, both films get multiple festival submission waiver fees, but only the winner gets a review and the ability to share their film with our readers, which this month's winner has graciously agreed to let us do. (A reminder: if you have made a short film that you haven't yet submitted, we are currently accepting submissions through March 1st for next month's contest. Please submit, as we'd love to consider your work!)
Cork's Cattlebaron (Eric Steele, 15 minutes)
This sneakily powerful drama concerns the downfall of Brady, a cocky, won't-shut-up-for-two-seconds salesman (Robert Longstreet) who sits down for dinner in an Omaha restaurant with his protégé Jon (Frank Mosley) and learns a painfully valuable lesson in the process. It's no secret that we're big fans of Longstreet here at HTN—he's our 2011 Silver Nail winner, by golly—yet his performance here only makes us love him more. Though he begins the film by playing an almost two-dimensional smart-ass, the final scene packs a three-dimensional wallop of humanity, adding unexpected depth to the proceedings. Initially, Mosley's role seems like an easy one, though it gradually reveals itself to be the trickiest, for he has to sit there for the majority of this film's 15 minutes in silence and absorb the obnoxiousness. Mosley underplays things perfectly, to the point where we know that when he finally speaks, it's going to bode very unwell for Brady. The death of a salesman, indeed.
Once It Started It Could Not End Otherwise (Kelly Sears, 7 minutes)
"A mesmerizing mutation of yearbook nostalgia that's more terrifying than high school itself." — Aaron Hillis, GreenCine Daily
That's judge Aaron Hillis succinctly summing up Kelly Sears' 7-minute nightmare of a film (its production was supported by the Rooftop Filmmakers' Fund), which blew away pretty much everyone who saw it on its way to the tippy-top spot. We couldn't have launched our ongoing monthly festival with a better example of a film that blends personal creativity and technical ingenuity with genuine emotional force. In my review, I had this to say about it (read the full HTN review):
Like an investigative report from a true crime show that has been soaked in LSD, Sears twists, distorts, and dements old yearbook photos to tell her haunting tale of a high school in 1974 (the year I was born, which only makes this film more eerily personal somehow) when something went insidiously wrong. Being that I am not even somewhat well versed in the art and craft of animation, I have absolutely no idea what techniques Sears uses here. But she uses them to truly unsettling effect. Several things stand out: the visuals pulsate in a manner that physically conjures the stale, soul-sucking airlessness of all those fluorescently lit classrooms and hallways; these yearbook figures, originally frozen in time by their class photographer, are now moved ever so slightly by Sears, giving them a ghostly quality; not as noticeably but perhaps most importantly, Sears uses text instead of a voice-over—there are no voices in this film whatsoever—which only adds to the atmosphere of desolation and loss.
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I am a postgraduate student at the University of Manchester doing a research project on the intersection of pleasure and labor within the work of graphic design. I'm posting here in hopes of finding some individuals that would be willing to participate in a brief interview for this project. I am based in the UK at the moment (originally from Portland, OR), but would be able to conduct interviews over skype or via e-mail. If by chance you do live in the UK, I would prefer to do the interview in person.
The interviews will be about an hour long and consist of some basic questions about the occupation and some more specific questions on the positive and negative aspects of doing this kind of creative work. All the information gathered from the interviews will be made anonymous in the final write up and all participants will be able to withdraw from the study at any point. In addition, this project has been approved by both the University of Manchester Sociology department and the University of Manchester ethics board and conforms to all of the institutional ethical procedures that these bodies require.
If you are interested in participating or have any additional question, please e-mail me. Participation would be a huge help to me and the furtherance of academic research into the creative industries.
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Ive killed off my other saves and started a new one, but so far even with the higher numbers things still seem to occur on the reg basis. Ill push up the numbers even higher, and see ..its just a toy after all
Only the ones that have the beginning SP-_CHT are readable. The rest seem to be binary and encoded. The xml files do not seem to relate, could be core game content that shouldn't be changed anyhow.
Yep those are the files I was referring to. I believe its something to do with Direct2Drive.


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A former Friendship Christian School cross country runner described Monday's bombing scene at the Boston Marathon finish line "absolutely disgusting."
"I really hope the person who did this gets caught," said Josh Erhard, of Gallatin.
Two large explosions rocked the Boston Marathon finish line at Copley Square just before 2 p.m. Monday, that left at least three people dead and more than 130 others injured on streets crowded with runners, spectators and post-race partiers.
Boston police reported a third explosion at the JFK Library more than an hour after the first two that left no injuries. A senior U.S. intelligence official told the Associated Press two more explosive devices were found near the scene and were dismantled.
Erhard, a 2010 Friendship Christian graduate, crossed the finish line about an hour before the explosions.
"The only thing that I really know is what I've been seeing on CNN," Erhard said Monday from his Boston hotel room. "We left about 30 minutes before everything happened. I'm still trying to collect myself.
"Apparently my parents had been standing in that exact spot about 45 minutes before it all happened. My mom was shaking because she had been right there. I can't imagine if you are a runner just coming in and find out that one of your family members had been hit by a bomb."
Three other Wilson County runners were listed on the Boston Marathon website as participants in Monday's race. According to the site, Alexandra W. Miller, 46, of Lebanon, crossed the 40K mark at 3:11 p.m. EST.
No tracking results were available for Mt. Juliet runners Manuel M. Arellano, 62, and Kimberly Manning, 46. Attempts to reach the three local runners were unsuccessful.
Erhard, who will be a junior in the fall at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, said he had a good race under great weather conditions and had just gotten out of the shower at his hotel when he first heard the news of the bombing.
"From what I experienced, it was great," Erhard said. "I had a decent marathon time. I would recommend anyone who is a runner to definitely do it. I hope these bombs don't deter anyone from running in it next year.
"I've been getting numerous phone calls and texts from people who had heard about it. It was really encouraging to see all those people concerned about me and my family, as well as the other runners."
Erhard exchanged a few texts with his former cross country coach Greg Armstrong while Armstrong was at work at Friendship Christian.
"He's fine," Armstrong said. "He said his parents were standing right in the spot where the bomb went off about 45 minutes before."
Erhard finished the race with a time of 3:08:30.
– The Boston Herald contributed to this report via MCT


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Michael Korn and Michael Mack talk about mothers, love and mercy.
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Your BeLive Show about mothers ,love and mercy was wonderful. The show was very moving to me ,because I was a abuse by my own father. I understand the pain you felt by your mother's hands. I enjoyed your show so much.
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With Susan Gillis Chapman and Greg Heffron
Monday Nov 9 – Wednesday Nov 11 2015
Susan Gillis Chapman and Greg Heffron will guide a three day workshop in Huize Elisabeth, Denekamp, the Netherlands.
Susan brings expertise in western relationship psychology together with the wisdom of meditation practice. In 2002 she and her husband completed a three year retreat at Gampo Abbey and Susan was invited by Pema Chodron to be the 'druppon', or retreat leader, for six more years. Her first book, The Five Keys To Mindful Communication, was published in April 2012 and is available in German translation. She teaches programs in contemplative psychology and mindful communication and is on the faculty of Karuna Institute, in Cologne, Germany.
Assisting Susan will be Greg Heffron, who owns and manages Green Zone Conversations. He is the only certified teacher of Mindful Communication authorized by Susan Chapman. He has been teaching Mindful Communication workshops since 2009, and has been a mindfulness meditation teacher since 2005 in the Shambhala Buddhist tradition. In 2005, he apprenticed with senior Mudra Space Awareness teacher Craig Smith, and become authorized to teach this unique mind-body meditation technique. In 2007, Smith and Heffron taught this practice in a workshop for fourth year students in the Dance Division at The Juilliard School in New York City.
His approach to this practice is to utilize the freedom inherent in our senses to unlock fixed or habitual patterns of reacting. In these workshops with Susan, he sees Mudra Space Awareness practice as providing the nonverbal view of communication — both communication within ourselves and between ourselves and others.
Just in time for the holidays, The Five Keys to Mindful Communication is now available as an audio book at Audible.com. Having a book in hand to look up key passages is useful. But listening allows us to process in a different way. Studying while driving, riding on the bus or cleaning your house are great ways to absorb the lessons and allow them to sink into the body.
The book's narrator is Gabra Zackman
Gabra Zackman is a New York based actress. She has narrated audiobooks in all genres and recently won an Earphones Award for her work on Kathi Appelt's The Underneath. She has had great critical acclaim for Maria V. Snyder's best selling Poison Study series and has recorded over 40 Harlequin romances. Gabra has performed regionally and locally in theatre, including the tour of the Broadway show Metamorphoses. Other regional theatres include: Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, The Arden Theatre of Philadelphia, and Florida Studio Theatre. She is a graduate of Northwestern University and got her MFA from The Academy for Classical Acting at the Shakespeare Theatre in DC. She has worked at many Shakespeare festivals (Hudson Valley, Georgia and Nebraska among them). Gabra has been seen on TV in episodes of Law & Order.]]>
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Creating Emotional Support Systems that Work introduces an approach to Mindful Communication detailed in Susan Gillis Chapman's The Five Keys to Mindful Communication (Shambhala Publications, 2012). It includes short talks, dialogues and unique mindfulness practices, such a Mudra Space Awareness. Participants learn to identify natural wakefulness within communication, and how to practice when communication breaks down — including when we feel a profound lack of confidence in ourselves and others. Based on the principles of Contemplative Psychology, Mindful Communication transforms fear-based reactions into powerful opportunities for self-discovery. Practicing these skills together brings resilience to our relationships and communities. The workshop will focus on how to build small networks of support that can actually function in our complex and speedy modern culture.
For more information or to register, email firstname.lastname@example.com or call 360-321-2709.
Greg Heffron owns and manages Green Zone Conversations. He is the only certified teacher of Mindful Communication authorized by author and Buddhist teacher Susan Chapman. He has been teaching Mindful Communication workshops with Chapman since 2009, and has taught workshops across North America and recently in Holland. He's been a teacher in the Shambhala Buddhist tradition since 2005. In 2005, he apprenticed with senior Mudra Space Awareness teacher Craig Smith, and become authorized to teach this unique mind-body meditation technique. In 2007, Smith and Heffron taught the practice in a workshop for fourth year students in the Dance Division at The Juilliard School in New York City.
THIS FIVE WEEK COURSE STARTS Oct 1, 2015
If you've studied the book and want to go deeper with a cohort of other students, or if you're new to the material and want to learn this unique approach directly from Susan Chapman, register below via Shambhala Online — home to online classes on mindfulness meditation, contemplative arts and the art of living.
Click here to register
Good communication is essential to any healthy relationship, whether it's between spouses, family members, friends, or co-workers. Mindfulness—the practice of nonjudgmental awareness—can help us communicate more effectively and meaningfully with others in our personal and professional lives.
In this recorded course, author and Buddhist teacher Susan Chapman explains how the practice of mindfulness awareness can change the way we speak and listen, enhance our relationships, and help us achieve our goals. She teams with Mindful Communication teacher Greg Heffron to guide participants through the material and engage in exercises and reflections.
You'll learn five key elements of mindful communication—silence, mirroring, encouraging, discerning, and responding—that make it possible for us to listen more deeply to others and to develop greater clarity and confidence about how to respond. Other topics include:
Online Event Schedule
Day 1: Envisioning an Awakened World with hosts Acharya Dan Hessey and Acharya Adam Lobel
Day 2: Waking Up to Personal Health & Well-being with host Holly Gayley
Day 3: Waking Up Through Relationships with host Susan Piver
Day 4: Waking Up Through Work with host Lodro Rinzler
Day 5: Waking Up Through Service with host Acharya Fleet Maul
Day 6: Interreligious Dialogue featuring senior teachers from 6 religious traditions
To register for this free event, click here.
This was originally posted Dec 2011.
Mindfulness meditation makes us more aware of the inner conversations– those dramas that run over and over again in our minds. We recruit people to play certain roles in these inner conversations, but when we look closely we realize they are dream-masks. They aren't real people. Our inner conversations are just thoughts spinning in thin air. But listen carefully, and we find that these internal dialogues are pretty close to 100% negative. Why? Because the frozen dramas that run through our mind are trying to manage fear. Here are a few examples:
I'm grateful to have been invited on the radio program An Organic Conversation. Click to listen.
The topic is listening as love. To me, this is the magic of mindful communication. Here's a simple formula for this: Stop – Look – Listen.
STOP: The first stage of mindful listening is to work with our speed and distraction. We need to simply stop, let go, make space. We spend our lives running away from open space, from the 'dead air' of silence. Before we can listen to another human being, we need to be capable of listening to ourselves. This is why sitting meditation is so important. The meditation journey trains us relax and let go of distractions. We unmask the boredom and restlessness to discover what our minds are really capable of. Gradually we learn to settle down peacefully, able to listen.
LOOK: There is a certain moment when our attention shifts from 'in here' to 'out there'. Imagine that our attention is like a beam of light. At that moment, it expands outward, illuminating the space around us. Before we listen to someone's words, we listen with our eyes, all our senses. Our natural communication system of Awake Body, Tender Heart and Open Mind tunes into the whole environment, a signal that we are open.
LISTEN: Now that we've opened the senses of our body, the vulnerability of our heart and the curiosity of our mind we're able to have a fresh experience. What is this fresh experience? Being completely open like this, with no hidden agenda is not a dry, empty exchange. When we're openly listening to another human being, the space is warm and tender. Because the 'me-first' barrier has dissolved, this space is a mixing zone where you can't find the dividing line between 'me' and 'you'. Instead there is awakeness, which lets you be who you are. There is tenderness, which enables me to feel what you feel. There is curiosity, which asks you to go on, 'please tell me more'. Whether this is a short conversation with a stranger on the bus or a life long conversation with a partner, listening openly like this is what it means to love.
Love to you all.]]>
From Harvard Business Review. There is chemistry behind staying open in communication.
"I'm not suggesting that you can't ever demand results or deliver difficult feedback. But it's important to do so in a way that is perceived as inclusive and supportive, thereby limiting cortisol production and hopefully stimulating oxytocin instead. Be mindful of the behaviors that open us up, and those that close us down, in our relationships. Harness the chemistry of conversations."
See the full article at http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/06/the-neurochemistry-of-positive-conversations/]]>
One of the greatest strengths of Mindful Communication is almost impossible to notice. It's invisible. Silent. Effective. And it comes when things get really difficult.
It's the power of "Stopping when the Light is Red." This means one deceptively simple thing: not throwing fuel on a burning fire.
Mindfulness Means Remembering to Notice What is Obvious
The first stage of Mindful Communication is Mindfulness. This is where we train our mind to stay connected to what is happening in each moment. When we lose contact with our experience and fall into sloppy theories and fantasies of what we should have said — mindlessness — we miss essential cues that would otherwise allow us to work more skillfully with the situations we find ourselves in.
"When the Red Light is on, there is a fire burning. This fire is hot, and often provokes us. We take its heat personally, as if it was a statement about our very being."
Mindfulness isn't the first option for most of us. We have to be realistic with ourselves. Just a short bit of mindfulness meditation reveals that our minds cannot stay with a simple task — such as paying attention to our breath, or sensations or emotions — for more than a few seconds before we pingpong off into any of a thousand mental directions. The thoughts that follow crowd out our awareness, leaving us lost in a mental world, away from the very real humans we're interacting with.
In this way, through mindfulness, we might actually notice an obvious truth in difficult situations — that perhaps someone we're with has moved into a Red Light experience.
Knowing that our conversation partner has entered the Red Light of reactivity is one of the most important things we can notice. The Red Light is a closed state, which takes many forms: reactive blame or hatred, disinterested shut down, desperation to connect (at all costs), brutal competition, arrogance, or any combination thereof.
When the Red Light is on, there is a fire burning. This fire is hot, and often provokes us. We take its heat personally, as if it was a statement about our very being. We ourselves would like to catch fire, to join in. Then, the fire wouldn't touch us, wouldn't make us sweat. If we were on fire too, it would be "fair." It would be "equal!" It's like the urge to scratch an infected sore — strangely irresistible even though some part of us knows it will only cause harm, not help and perhaps result in what Susan Chapman calls "a secondary infection" within our communication. These infections can be extreme in their damage, even though the original would was minor. As she says in the Five Keys to Mindful Communication, "It might only keep us awake for a night or two, but without warning it can take a turn and destroy our lifelines: the relationships we depend on."
So out of habit, we pour fuel on the fire. And on ourselves. We think this will help.
If we "fight fire with fire," it has to work, right?
Of course, we know from history that this isn't the most effective method for working with others. Even those "enemies" we defeat might later form "sleeper cells" which reemerge in our relationships, at work and in our communities even years later. Suddenly, terrorism arises — we get a surprise email which rocks us, or our romantic partner, child or sibling brings up long forgotten words and conflicts that we thought were "ancient history."
Mindful Communication isn't about tracking every issue back to the start. Often, this isn't possible. And even our retroactive analyses often oversimplify highly complex life experience, in order to come up with a clear answer of who was to blame, or why no one was to blame. Instead, what's important is happening right now, in the real situations we find ourselves in.
Is our partner in the Red Light? Then communication is already shut down. It's not a moral issue. It's not important to blame anyone for this. But it is reality. Or at least what we think is reality. So we need to acknowledge the facts of the matter. We stop. We don't try to continue making our points. We don't try to get that person to respond to us who clearly isn't capable of doing so (in that moment).
What is actually helpful is to recognize what is obvious. We need to "Stop When the Light is Red." Not add fuel to the fire. We need to allow the fire to burn it's fuel and extinguish itself, as all fires do. Here, the red light will transition into the Yellow Light (anxiety and shakiness). Then, with a little luck, even into the Green Light of openness. Perhaps this takes a night. Perhaps ten years. So we wait, knowing that closed communication doesn't welcome or want our external input.
Once communication opens again, it's very possible to talk further, to sort through the situation a bit, with the aim of maintaining communication in the Green Light. This leads to actual communication, even around controversy, schisms and poignant material.
It sometimes seems hard to Stop When the Light is Red. "No one will give me credit for not causing problems." This is very true. It's a rare person who will help without need for external affirmation. If we need a pat on the back to do it, we'll have to provide it. But the world will be a little better place. Just one person recognizing what is obvious, and not causing further problems, is a triumph for all of us. This is the true meaning of We First.
And for those that practice it, it is its own reward.]]>


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Kochi Bike and Backwaters
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Embrace both pedal and paddle on this Kochi bike tour that cruises down to the beautiful backwaters of India, stops at a local's house for lunch, and glides through the picturesque rivers of Ezhupunna. Not to mention the beaches, fisherman's farms, and villages we'll check out on the way. We couldn't fit more into this tour even if we wanted to!
* Cycle through the villages of rural Kochi
* Connect with local fisherman and learn about their practices
* Take a boat ride down the gorgeous backwaters of India
* Enjoy a delicious, fresh lunch in the home of a local
* Explore rural village life in India
What's included in this trip
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Children must be 6 years of age to 11 years inclusively. Children below the age of 6 are not permitted on this tour.
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If you are happy with the services provided by your local guides a tip - though not compulsory - is appropriate. While it may not be customary to you, it is of great significance to the people who will take care of you during your travels, inspires excellent service, and is an entrenched feature of the tourism industry across many Intrepid Urban Adventures destinations. Please consider this when budgeting for your extra expenses on this tour.
What could be more perfect than spending the day breezing through rural India on a bike, taking in the sights and sounds, stopping along the way for some authentic local food? We know, sounds pretty great to us too. This Kochi tour is just that and more - let's ride!
We'll kick off this Kochi bike tour in Fort Kochi, a port town filled with fascinating sights such as the Santa Cruz Basilica and Vasco da Gama church. We'll breeze past these spots at the beginning of the tour, and your local guide will stop along the way to give you the lowdown on Kochi and what makes it tick. We'll also pay a visit to the fishermen who use traditional nets for their craft, and take a break at the beaches most popular with the locals.
We'll continue to tour Kochi and head towards Ezhupunna backwaters. En route we'll stop by sea shore fish auction centres, and onwards to prawn peeling centres. These places are the backbone of the fishing industry in Kochi, making them the perfect place for you to get a real feel for the people who live and work here. We'll cruise down coconut tree-lined streets, and if we have enough time we may even stop at a local toddy bar for a drink.
Upon reaching the backwaters, it'll be time to take a break and have some lunch. But not just any lunch! You'll be treated to a traditional fisherman's lunch with a local family, which will consist of fresh fried fish and tasty curry dishes. During this time in the villages you'll have the unique chance to interact with locals and experience Kerala village life, an opportunity you're sure to remember for a long time.
In the afternoon, we'll give the bikes a break for a couple of hours and hop on a canoe or shikara boat ride through the narrow canals. This relaxing part of the tour will get you right up close to the beautiful waters, the veins that run through this part of India, making it so naturally stunning.
After your scenic boat ride, we'll hop back on our bikes and return to Kochi, stopping off along the way to check out some prawn culturing farms and Kumbalanghi model tourism village. We'll also have plenty of opportunity to stop and take pictures, and once you see this gorgeous scenery, you'll definitely want to - trust us!
The total distance covered on this Kochi tour is around 34km, and we'll be riding at a leisurely pace with plenty of stops. This tour is suited to cyclists of all levels, so don't worry if you're not a pro! We won't be taking on any devilish hills – the terrain is fairly easy and gentle.


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|Ole I knew that about he soaps etc. When I was a kid we would go visit my grandparents in Oklahoma each summer , We would take the soaps from the motels and then at Christmas when the teacher would bring out the little Red Cross boxes that we filled and sent to Korea (dating myself here ) I would always have the soaps for the box.
So since then I take them and pass them on to among other places the Teen shelter here in HB , the halfway house, the Soldiers Angels. Several years ago a woman who ran our local mail place had all her customers trained to bring her their soaps an other items from their business trips. She would then get shoe boxes from local stores . In her space time she made shoe box kits for the homeless in the area. She would go with others into the camps in the river bed (yeah we have a river just no water in it most of the time) and pass out the boxes. I gave to her for years . I even have other friends giving me their soaps now too.


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I am pretty sure Mammoth has plenty of high speed quads. You've been bamboozled...
yeah, I should have called that photo "waiting for the top to open"
there are tons of quads and a gondola. I usually don't have time for pix when Im riding those.
I figured that my sarcasm would be detected, as....well, it is know as a pretty good resort....anyway, I don't mind the slower chairs cos it gets you to some good tree runs that a lot of people don't know about or don't want to trek to. The backside can be a bit of a journey to get to/from if you're based out of main lodge. But it's well worth it on a powder day because not many people venture back there.
Id rather stay back there then fight the supercool broskis at the top for pow, esp on the weekends. I also assumed that anyone considering going to mammoth would you know, look at the trail map or something. anyway...I wasn't trying to bamboozle anyone.
tyler, keep planning your thing. someone asked if there were cheaper ways and I said yes but to ask in another thread. I am sure your meet up will be awesome but it IS pricey. Im not trying to steal people from your meet up, but rather encourage others who might want to visit mammoth during some other time.
I am always looking for peeps to ride with, I know the area really well and am always happy to hook people up when I can. Im not trying to be negative about your meet up, I sweeeeeeeeear! And I will mostly like be there anyway, as I don't work in the spring and spend most of those months riding. The last two years I've pretty much lived in Mammoth for the month of May.
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