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my 3 year old little girl humps her faveorite toys.. i litterally will have to take them away from her. but then on course, she will find something else and keep doing it.
i dont feel like i should tell her NO or yell at her, because im afraid she might become self concious.
she will do it sometimes in the front room, or she will hide away and do in in private.
and i notice that she does it more when she is sleepy or is ready for her nap..
please advice to help me with this issue, and is anyone else going through this as well with their children/child?

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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Capital One Financial (COF) and two major trust banks were the leaders among large-cap bank stocks on Thursday, as improved economic numbers and a recent change in Federal Reserve stimulus policy continued to push long-term interest rates higher.
Shares of Capital One rose 0.7% to close at $75.88, while Northern Trust (NTRS) of Chicago was up 0.7% to $61.71 and State Street (STT - Get Report) of Boston rose 0.7% to $72.73.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) was up 0.8%, while the S&P 500 (^GSPC) rose 0.5% and the NASDAQ Composite (^IXIC) added 0.3%, after the Department of Labor said first-time unemployment claims for the week ended Dec. 21 totaled a seasonally adjusted 338,000 declining from an upwardly revised 380,000 the previous week. The four-week moving average for initial unemployment claims declined to 348,000, increasing from 343.750 the previous week.
Economists polled by Reuters on average had estimated last week's jobless claims number to come in at 335,000.
Despite being seasonally adjusted, unemployment numbers are typically volatile during the holiday season.
"The next 'clean' claims report won't be for weeks. But the underlying trend suggests job destruction continues to decline. This is a welcome step in the right direction and further reinforces the Fed's assessment of a stronger labor market," Sterne Agee chief economist Lindsey Piegza wrote in a note to clients Thursday.
Piegza was referring to the determination by the Federal Open Market Committee last week that U.S. economic indicators had improved sufficiently for the Federal Reserve's "QE3" purchases of long-term bonds to be lowered from a monthly pace of $85 billion to $75 billion. Long-term interest rates had already risen considerably as investors anticipated the Fed's eventual "tapering" of its balance sheet expansion, but rates have risen considerably over the past week.
The market yield for 10-year U.S. Treasury bonds rose by two basis points on Thursday to 3.00%. The 10-year yield has risen 11 basis points since Dec. 18, the day before the FOMC announced its Fed tapering decision. The 10-year yield was as low as 1.70% at the end of April.
Piegza was also impressed with the Census Bureau's report on Tuesday, when the agency said durable-goods orders for November rose 3.5% from the October, when they dipped 0.7% in part because of a two-week partial shutdown of the federal government. That second number was revised upward from the previous estimate of a 2.0% decline during October.
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According to Piegza, "businesses have been sidelined for quite some time, hesitant to invest in equipment, structures and certainly employees. However, as certainty appears to have returned to Washington in terms of spending and tax policy, at least through 2015, businesses (and consumers) are beginning to loosen their purse strings, particularly amid improving global demand."
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How are you currently trying to delete content from the device?
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If that isn't the case, you'll want to look at the iPod's Music configuration tab. You can access this tab by selecting your iPod under Devices. This should bring you to the Summary tab over to the right. Look for the Music tab along the top and select it. Here you can configure how and what music syncs to your device. If you make any changes to this tab, be sure to hit the Apply button in the lower right hand corner to sync the updated changes to your device.
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Here is the finished piece guys, you can check out the time-lapse for it here: youtu.be/tRmMCbLUUSY
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Titan looks like it wants to have a conversation with a mouth like that
It rocks !
Looks like Gurren Lagan (the girl)
Looks like Gurren Lagan (the girl)
looks like a mix of a Jaeger and a Kaiju from Pacific Rim.
this is dope! i like the mecha with an organic looking mouth
Cool Mecha!
Why isn't this an anime....TT.TT
You want giant robots and hot babes? Already enough anime like that out there.
Why does it have to be an anime doe
Honestly I believe you are an amazing artist so
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GENZOMANÂ had referenced to this piece of artwork, ALOT, it almost seems traced,
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I wanted to inform of
GENZOMANÂ had referenced to this piece of artwork, ALOT, it almost seems traced,
so yeah I wanted to let you know. <3 Love your artwork!
Wtf. Amazing
Looks a bit like an robotic Kajiu from pacific rim
"See anything yet, big fellah?"
"Don't worry. I'm keeping an eye out..."
Beautiful couple!
O.O No words for how awesome this is.....
The robot`s head is so lovely!
Nice. (someone has seen Pacific Rim i bet )
His (awesome and original) artworks are closer to Neon Evangelion genesis IMO
I love this on so many levels.
Wow amazing robot
such a lovely mech design, Sir! Hats off!! ^^
Is that thing robot or living thing with armor?
the lips give this robot such character relatable to humaness, it really is my favourite part of this piece
I like the design of the Titan very much looks a bit like a shark to me
Ooh, very grand, and I lvoe the lighting it has a wonderful stark and bright quality like the morning sun.
Just saw your video on youtube making this piece of art and I must say your work is amazing been trolling your gallery too its fabulous! I would like to invite you to my forum I just Opened it has a CG Art section which I would like to fill with enormous artists like you, I myself an artist (well only learning for now) geekbay.net
keep up the great arts.
no relation to titan of blizzard right?
I love it! I do find the super-arched-ness of the girl's back distracting though. A little arched is hot, but I think this is a bit too arched. Still awesome though. I love the contrast of the huge and tough mech with the small and seemingly delicate girl. I am assuming she is a total badass.
reminds me of something from evangelion awesome work
AWESOME!, mechs and babes, FTW
That Mecha and that bab are very nice looking! Great work
That Mecha and that bab are very nice looking! Great work
This looks amazing. I love all your art so much.
Nice Work!!
Not only do you help us with tutorials and videos but you also give really helpful advice, thank you very much for that! ^_^ I love the designs of both the mech and the girl.
This is brilliant, in fact all your work is, and your time lapses are a massive help too. Oddly I really like the titans lips here they make him feel really old like the thing has been alive for thousands of years. The lighting is spot on too and the characters both feel like they really belong in the space.
also your talk on a job in art is all so very true, well from my experience anyway.
great work man keep it up
though he was a mech. then i saw the mouth.
awesome work!!
Beautiful work. Love that robot head.
Yush! This is Insane !
lighting on the woman is off, front needs to be way darker
Wow, that's awesome! Great work!
Reminds me of an Evangelion.
so cool. just saw the video, the result is awesome
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So Have Deferred Associates Been Happy With Their Time Away?
Many moons ago, I was a summer associate at a big New York law firm.
The experience was everything you already know about New York summer-associate programs (not too much work, big lunches, forced participation at aggressively un-fun post-work events).
But one of the strangest and most unexpected components involved a two or three week outplacement externship thingy at a lower Manhattan public-interest organization. For three weeks, while collecting the law firm's ample weekly salary, I drank coffee and read a book in a sweltering vending-machine room that doubled as a working space. At least four times a day, I asked the managing attorney for some work, and at least four times a day, she promised she'd get me some. Then, at around 4:15 on each day, she'd come in to buy some pop-tarts and tell me, oh by the way, that I could leave, that it would be too much trouble to spend an hour teaching me how to do something when she could bang it out in 15 minutes. So, of course, I would.
I was reminded of this today when reading this article in the New York Law Journal about some of the frustrations experienced by those deferred associates who've been placed for the year with some public-interest organizations.
According to the article, it sounds like many of the deferred associates are having good experiences. At the same time, some seemed to notice a divide between the full-time staff attorneys and those only slated to be there for a year or so.
"There was an early identification of the issue of how do you take people who've never really worked in a public interest environment and plop them down in the middle of a public interest organization," said Lynn Kelly of the New York city bar, which last week released this report on the externship project.
Frankly, we can understand both sides of this. On the one hand, we wouldn't be surprised to hear that training and supervision may have been a bit lacking. Training and supervision are expensive, of course, and public-interest organizations aren't known for having a ton of extra cash (or man hours) to throw around — especially on lawyers who aren't necessarily in the public-interest game for the long haul.
Said Kelly to the NYLJ: "Although it's a terrific program in the sense that you get a free lawyer for the organizations, the costs involved in the supervision are real costs."
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My LO never really liked his crib but he slept fine in our bed for his naps. My husband decided to bring him into our bed. He slept with us for a few months but neither he nor us had a good night sleep within those few months.We decided to buy him a twin car bed, the sides of the car bed are high enough to stop him from rolling out of bed. The first night my husband and I played in his room and on the bed for a bit before we put him to bed. When bed time came up I did the same as every night and turned off the lights and laid with him on the bed. He tossed and turned for a few minutes but then he fell asleep. I'll usually get up a few minutes after he's fallen asleep and leave him in his room. He'll sleep til the next morning and he's slept all night ever since. I love putting him to bed because it gives me a little cuddling time with him. Hope this helps!
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Tumbling temps, ice cause fatal accident, closures in countyPublished 6:37am Wednesday, January 29, 2014
Snow, sleet and ice were a dangerous combination in much of Elmore County Tuesday morning with the temperatures hovering below freezing much of the day.
The wintery mixture led to a number accidents throughout the River Region.
Two people died from a seven-vehicle accident on the canal bridge on Alabama Highway 14 in Elmore just before 8 a.m. Tuesday.
The driver of one of the vehicles Tyrell Harris, 29, of Wetumpka and his 2-year-old passenger Rayne Harris died as a result from the accident. Both were pronounced dead at the scene.
A number of bridges throughout the county were also closed after icing over from the freezing temperatures.
Just before noon on Tuesday the Emerald Mountain and Alabama River Parkway toll bridges were closed because of ice.
City and county road crews were braving the cold to spread sand on bridges throughout the county to ensure they were passable to those who needed to be on the roads.
All county schools, county governmental offices as well as some municipal government offices either closed early Tuesday or were closed all day Tuesday.
Most of the government offices announced they would be closed all day today.
Just after 1 p.m. Tuesday, the Elmore County Commission announced it was closing all of the county roads as of sunset Tuesday until further notice today.
State and U.S. highways and Interstates continued to be open, but drivers were put on high alert to travel as little as possible with the potential of iced-over bridges and roads.
As of 2 p.m. Tuesday no warming stations had been opened in the Wetumpka area. One warming station was opened in Tallassee.
Elmore County EMA public information officer Kim Trost said the stations had been put on standby until further notice.
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David McRae hasn't pulled out all the stops to let the world know that the beloved Columbia City cinema he revived from the dead is now officially open. Instead, for the past couple of weeks, he's been going with a "soft opening" for the now named Ark Lodge Cinemas. "Hopefully, that way we'll build up trust with the community," McRrae tells SW.
*See Also: Columbia City Cinema Shuts Down--Latest in String of Film House Fatalities
South End residents went through a roller coaster ride with the cinema last year as owner Paul Doyle struggled to meet the city's demands for fire sprinklers and alarms. To raise funds, he tried selling stock in the cinema (a plan nixed by regulators) and then selling seats. In the end, he reluctantly called it quits with a bitter j'accuse at the city.McRae, though, credits Deputy Mayor Darryl Smith with helping him reopen the cinema. Smith, who lives in the Columbia City area, couldn't eliminate the red tape completely. "But he did shorten it," McRae says.
All in all, McRae says he has spent $200,000 getting the historic building, originally used as a Masonic Lodge, up to code. As he's been putting the final touches on the system, he's opened only the small, bottom two theaters--both playing The Hobbit-- and had a staffer on fire watch, walking through the building every 15 minutes.
That's supposed to end this week when McRae expects to get final approval from the city for his upgrades . He's booked two new movies, Les Miserables and Promised Land, the latter likely to play in the art-deco showpiece of a theater upstairs.
Programming will remain much as it did under its previous incarnation, with first-run and independent films, according to McRae. However, the new owner says he's open to suggestions. When someone from the deaf community called up wanting to know about a possible screening with subtitles, McRae accommodated. He now says he plans to show one such screening a month. He says he'd also like to see such diverse offerings as movies from Bollywood and gay and lesbian film festivals.
McRae lives in nearby Beacon Hill and hails from a movie background; his parents once ran a theater in Redmond called Cine-Mond. Over the past few years, he's been traveling the country helping cinemas transition to the digital age. Oddly, he never went to the Columbia City Cinema himself. After it closed, though, he would drive past and see the "for lease" sign. "Maybe I could this," he says he thought to himself as the idea of taking it over began to take shape. He took the plunge.
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Clinton's Abandoned War on Drugs
Lambro, Donald, The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
Of all of the personal, political and bureaucratic scandals that have plagued Bill Clinton's presidency, perhaps none is as serious as its abandonment of the war on drugs.
As soon as he became president he slashed the budget of the White House drug abuse office and deliberately de-emphasized the issue. Ronald Reagan's all out war against drug traffickers and pushers, along with Nancy Reagan's effective "just say no" crusade aimed at our kids, became a distant memory. There were reports that many of the president's younger aides had used drugs, and Mr. Clinton admitted that he had tried marijuana but "didn't inhale," later telling an MTV audience of kids that he now wished he had.
The signal being sent from this administration to a lot of young people, unintended or not, seemed to be that maybe recreational drugs were not such a bad thing.
Now there is growing evidence that drug abuse has been rising at an alarming rate among adolescents under Mr. Clinton's watch. And it is sparking growing criticism that the once-mighty government assault on drugs died as soon as he took office.
Two national surveys released last month show that there has been a sharp rise in the number of teen-agers using "hard drugs," including heroin, cocaine or LSD, with some of the biggest increases occurring among youths as young as age 12. Experts who have studied the latest statistics say they paint a disturbing picture of a serious teen drug epidemic that is getting worse.
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"His priorities are backward. We need to focus on the more serious problems. He needs to get his eyes off people smoking outside of federal buildings and on kids who are destroying their lives," said Robert Maginnis, senior policy adviser on drugs at the Family Research Council.
"We don't have a war on drugs. We have a terrible drug scourge afflicting our kids. Why aren't we getting serious about this?" Mr. Maginnis told me.
"When the number of 12-year-olds who know cocaine and heroin users doubles in one year, that's a crisis that demands presidential leadership. Yet Bill Clinton's silence on the worsening drug crisis is deafening," says magazine publisher Steve Forbes.
Attacking Mr. Clinton in a series of radio ads around the country for "a deeply disturbing lack of leadership in the war on drugs," Mr. Forbes asks, "Where is Bill Clinton? Why isn't he leading on this issue?"
Mr. Forbes, a candidate for president last year, has been running radio ads against drug legalization initiatives here in D.C. and in Washington state. Notably, he has also been airing the ads in Martha's Vineyard, where the president has been vacationing.
Meantime, the official statistical evidence of a national drug epidemic among young people has been piling up. …


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What will be required at the local, regional and global levels to ensure an effective partnership?
Small-scale fishing is much more significant than most people realize. Like small-scale agriculture, small-scale fishing is widespread and crucial to employment and food supply in innumerable communities in developing nations, where some 95 percent of all fishers ply their trade (FAO 2002a) quoted in (Yumiko, et al., 2004).
Raising awareness of the importance of small-scale fisheries is particularly relevant not only because these livelihoods depend on sustainable use of the natural resource base, but also because these fisheries provide vital local nutritious food and a safety net for many poor households in coastal communities in developing countries (World Bank, 2010).
In addressing the issues of communication among small scale fisheries one need to first address the issues by strengthening the political and economic rights of the small-scale fisheries actors, empowerment and capacity building. Fishing communities should have access to health, education and other social services. Their resilience needs to be increased – in general and with regard to natural disasters and climate change consequences in particular. It requires a focus on reducing vulnerabilities and promoting responsible fishing practices together with addressing social and economic development needs. While some experience exists from such integration of resource governance and social development, tools and methods still need to be developed in order that environmental, resource and community rights and sustainability are considered concurrently.
When it comes to ensuring an effective partnership at the local level strengthening local organizational structures help people to be represented and take part in decision-making processes. There is a need to work with communities to enhance their organizational capacity, building on existing structures and strengths. The focus should be on enabling individuals and institutions to effectively use their newly acquired capacity to address their priority needs. Also at the local level the evolving of women isimportant because about (47 percent) of women, mainly engaged in the post-harvest activities, handling the fish after it is caught and ensuring that this important source of nutrition reaches more than 1 billion consumers for whom fish is a key component of their diets (World Bank, 2010).
Moreover, an effective partnership at the regional level can be promoted by fostering a link between stakeholders NGOs and research institutions. These organizations often have specific skills in training extension, communication and research that can assist both government and communities with their responsibilities for fisheries management. These organizations can also help local managers formulate and evaluate their management plans by providing knowledge and advice and helping design and implement effective data collection systems. Other important related roles might include developing communication networks and facilitating information sharing.
Additionally at the global level ensuring an effective partnership can be implemented by supporting knowledge mobilization, leadership capabilities (of men and women), research partnerships and the use of effective communication tools (making use of new technologies and social media). Programs and networks for experience sharing and collaboration would aid in the context of strengthening existing organizations and ensuring that the necessary institutional structures and capacity are in place to secure sustainable small-scale fisheries. Also the need for empowerment through organizational development and collective actions is one of the key elements of SSF Guidelines implementation.
Further readings International Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-scale Fisheries,2012. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Challenges and opportunities – needs for support and interventions
According to the FAO's State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture Report 2012, more than ninety percent (90%) of all capture fishers are operating in the small-scale sector, with women playing a key role in post-harvest activities. The livelihoods of about 357 million people, primarily in developing countries, depend on the sector which often constitutes a fundamental way of life as well as an important economic activity. These guidelines establish principles and criteria for the elaboration and implementation of policies and strategies for the enhancement of small-scale fisheries governance and development. It also provides practical guidance for implementation of these policies and strategies. However, theses guideline are subject to challenges as it regards to the implementation process.
Meeting present and future food needs, ensuring environmental integrity and providing income and employment in the fishery sector is a balancing act given the finite productive capacity of resources and a complex challenge given the uncertainty over this productivity. However, addressing these issues is what makes governance possibly the most complex of the challenges. There are potentially many stakeholders who may wish to gain access to, or control over fisheries resources or influence management decisions. These individuals and groups may have very differing views of what sustainability is, based on their world views and attitudes to risk, and therefore what sorts of priorities, decisions and outcomes would be appropriate for a fishery.
Due to poverty and vulnerability, small-scale fishing communities may lack the incentives to participate in resource management and these aspects of poverty need to be addressed first, or simultaneously. Appropriate incentive structures (institutional, legal, economic, and social) are needed to enable small-scale fishing communities to sustainably manage the aquatic resources they and future generations depend on for their well-being without jeopardizing their social and economic development.
It is important to create opportunities for exchange of views among stakeholder groups to learn from each other. Accordingly, for both implementation and monitoring along with the development of capacity at all levels, appropriate institutional arrangements are required, including partnerships for policy formulation and involvement of grassroots level organizations. Partnerships among all stakeholders are critical for this process. Many opportunities for establishing and strengthening these partnerships already exist and given financial and human resource constraints, existing platforms and institutional arrangements should be used for this purpose. Fisheries agencies for example could interact with peers in other countries and regional organizations (e.g. in Africa, NEPAD Sub-regional Fisheries Commission, in Asia, SEAFDEC, ASEAN, SPC etc.) could play a critical role in facilitating regional, sub regional and national implementation strategies and plans focusing on the issues pertinent to the specific regions and countries.
In the Philippines for example, the Fisheries Code endorses the establishment of Fisheries and Aquatic Resource Management Councils, formed by fisheries organizations, cooperatives and NGOs at the national, municipal and village level, which are mandated to carry out a number of advisory functions in close collaboration with the local government units. Existing inter-sectoral processes and collaborative arrangements such as for climate change adaptation, coastal zone management or socio-economic development and planning at different level are other potential entry points.
FURTHER READINGS: Toward sustainable fisheries management by M.R.A.G.
Supporting instruments for the Implementation of small fisheries guidelines
A key starting point in establishing a sustainable platform can be capacity building of users within targeted zones. By zones we mean fishing areas where several communities or tribes derive their living. Training and education organized through private public partnership can serve as instruments to sensitize users of risks associated with poor practices relative to that of a sustainable behavior. Education in this context of sustainability needs to be mindful of the user background especially in developing countries (DC). Many fishers in DC are so by possibly culture or socialization. Hence, terms such as open access, replenishing rate, depletion and so on may have little value. This form of education must be specialized so that the issues are clearly understood. In addition, information dissemination through technological sources where possible can also provide a ready source of prompt response to users with uncertainty regarding usage of these zones. Training will target best practices.
Odusina identified the role of advocacy as a critical component in supporting the implementation of voluntary guideline of SSF. However, by extension, the nature of advocacy should also focus on empowering citizens not only for change but to enforce change. This enforcement capacity has been the weakness of several types of implementations whether it be laws or otherwise. Therefore, to ensure cohesion between guidelines and practice capacity needs to be built so that enforcement is achievable. When enforcement is possible, accountability across all levels becomes a realistic objective.
One of the engines to support the implementation process is partnerships. By partnerships we mean lobbying governments in DC to provide an enabling environment for the Private Sector, NGO, Civil Society, FBO and other organization to freely participate in the process of implementation. Legislative protection must also be part of this partnership framework. It would be difficult for some of these groups to work effectively in potentially challenging environment without a sense of protection. It is natural for people to try to circumvent at some point, rules they may have agreed to sometime in the past. Therefore legislative enactments serve as a deterrent motivating factor.
Finally, to achieve optimal compliance some form of verification and monitoring should be established. Where zones require the use of small boats licensing, would be insufficient to influence operators to adhere to these rules since a cost may be imposed. Therefore to the extent whereby deviation of standard practice is observed a form of corrective measure should be applied to ensure that norms are upheld.


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Bloomberg's announcement, made Thursday in his State of the City address, left consumers and food vendors wondering what a city free of plastic foam might look like.
Polystyrene-foam containers have long been used by street vendors and take-out restaurants as a cheap way to insulate to-go meals.
"If they ban it all, we'll have to use aluminum storage containers," said Paul Gopaul, 29, owner of the popular Midtown food truck Faith's Halal Food. "Definitely, we'd have a price change."
Gopaul estimated he uses 500 plastic-foam food containers a week, which he buys in packs of 175 containers for $15 each at a Queens supplier. The aluminum containers of equal size run about $5 more per pack, he said.
The mayor's proposal is not an original idea. A number of cities on the West Coast have enacted such legislation, including San Francisco. Some states have partial or industry-specific bans of the material's use. In Maine, for example, bait can't be sold in polystyrene-foam plastic.


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gives it to frank. i don't think he minds.
gives it to frank. i don't think he minds.
'In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, "Make us your slaves, but feed us." '
-Fyodor Dostoevsky's Grand Inquisitor
What fantastic stage and a great ride by Kohl. They did what they needed to do to break Evans.
What a great tour!
Best stage so far.
It's going to come down to the final TT unless CSC or Cadel can turn it on on the Alpes.
Ten tenths.
Great stage. Now there are 6 riders within 1 minute of the leader. And Kirchen did not lose a great deal of time. Valverde rode well; pity he could not manage that earlier.
Does anyone think Martinez messed that one up? I did not see all the climb because I was fumbling around for a new live feed.
That was one of the best stages I've ever seen!!! Great tour...Ricco who?
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Fantastic stage.
pate really hung in there....i figured he'd be the first to drop
Thought it was good to see Cadel having to put in a real effort. Agree with all the above - great finish.
Great work by Andy Schleck forcing the tempo and trying to put Cadel in a hurt box.
Gelato aficionado.
Great stage. I thought my DVR was going to cutoff the final minutes. Whew... had 2 minutes to spare...
Great stage! I was getting so sick of Cofidis.
This was such a great stage... made even better by Cadel losing the yellow shirt.
Burn the incline - V5
I'd love to see Frank Schleck win this tour.
pate is pretty good as a climber...too bad cadel lost the jersey though, but i like shleck. Yikes, though, that crash by Pereiro. There the rest of his season! there's always one team in every grand tour that just gets completely decimated by injuries and bad luck, and by the time they get to the finish, there's like two of them left.This year it seems to be Caisse Epargne-ever since the win by valverde and his high standing, they seem to have some kind of Spanish curse on them. There's another week though...
some real suffering going on today, and bad luck for menchov!
You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. That's great...if you want to attract vermin.
What a great stage! I just finished watching it off the DVR, as I was out doing a 60 mile bike ride this morning. The update on Peirero (did I get it right?) is that he has a broken shoulder but no broken leg, so that is a bit better. Still, it's sad to see him out of the Tour.
I think Menchov got a bit tailed off at the end there, probably from having to chase so hard after that freaky crash. He really looked to be the strongest to me today, gazing around at all the others and especially at Evans. Cadel looked bad for the last half of the climb. You just could sense he wasn't going to be able to cover all the breaks. I was amazed at how strong Kohl was...and now things are so tight that you can throw a blanket over the top 6 guys.
An awesome Tour so far!! Now you have to wonder if Evans is going to be in trouble on Tuesday and/or Wednesday. My money is still on Menchov.
i think in thee next 2 stages we will see the times spread out more. I think the little guy Sastre will take min 2 minutes in the next couple stages and will have yellow on stage 17. As the road gets steeper it favors him. Schleck will lose the jersey on TUesday. Kohl will have a bad day and VDV has a real chance at podium. I think a Pure Climber will win this. Not by much. seconds. .. I would love to see Valverde (Piti) show up again.
Cadel got worked over today and they will need to do it again on Tuesday and hit him early on that last climb, Sastre, Kohl & Schlek will need 2 mins on Evans.
Did you see your man Voigt dragging the bunch along and he kept going on the lower slopes of the last climb. I think he's the one who popped popovych. Great stuff.
Popo dosen't seem to have the mojo jojo this past few days...and to think Ligget was saying he is coming to form...then again the mighty CSC-Saxo is strutting their stuff :-)
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1. How much time can Sastre and Frank Schleck get on Evans, Menchov, Vandevelde so that they stand a chance in the time trial?
2. How much time do Menchov and Vandevelde need on Evans so that they can hold him off in the time trial?
3. Will Kohl crack and how much of a wild card is he?
Of course a lot of these questions might be moot if Evans cracks on Tues/Weds and loses 5-10 minutes to the rest. After seeing his vulnerability today, I'm thinking that's not out of the question. This may come down to a battle between Vandevelde and Menchov, both of them chasing down Sastre in the TT.
I'm so excited I can barely spell "Pereiro!"
And I'll excuse you for calling me "young" lady...but I'll wallow in the compliment for a few more hours.
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Wonderful picture!
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This was probably my main reason for not buying a complete CrossCheck or LHT. I'm not knocking them but am just wondering the appeal of them over STI's.
This was probably my main reason for not buying a complete CrossCheck or LHT. I'm not knocking them but am just wondering the appeal of them over STI's.
Don't be a guy. The world is full of guys. Be a man.
They work great in the winter with large glove/mittens compared to STI. For summer, I prefer th STI though. They are very dependable(Bar end shifters). SO winter and dependability are their two main virtues I like.
Once you get used to them they are very nice and completely indestructible.
Non semper erit aestas.
I have had not great luck w/ trigger shifters, I like twist shifters fine, and if I was going to err toward newer-fangled than twist or older-fangled, I would go older. So I did. Plus, it's just not easy to correctly index a triple chainring, less annoying to just concede that out of the box and use a friction front shifter. And they're cheaper.
bar ends-
have a nice feel,
are reliable,
and are fairly inexpensive.
One of the redeeming features of barends for me is the ability to grab a whole handful of gear at once. None of this push to shift, push to shift crap. I can go from little cog to big cog in one movement. And I can infinitely trim the front.
This is Africa, 1943. War spits out its violence overhead and the sandy graveyard swallows it up. Her name is King Nine, B-25, medium bomber, Twelfth Air Force. On a hot, still morning she took off from Tunisia to bomb the southern tip of Italy. An errant piece of flak tore a hole in a wing tank and, like a wounded bird, this is where she landed, not to return on this day, or any other day.
I have bar end shifters on two of my bikes (the other is my recumbant), and I like them over the original shifters mounted on the frame, as they are more accessible. Concerning them compared to STIs, I believe that STIs are probably a bit handier. But the STIs are sitting out there in front, with the brake levers, and in a crash situation would be pretty mangled (potentially). Bar ends, being on the other side of the bar, are much more protected in a crash than the STIs.
John Ratliff
Bar end friction shifting is the simplest shifting for me
When I use trigger or twist grip shifters, I have to go pedal, *click*, pedal, *click*, pedal to get into a desired gear. With friction I just slap it down or push it up until it settles in a cog that feels comfy to pedal.
The first (and only) time I used STI shifters, I didn't like 'em, because I had to put too much of my concentration into remembering which of the 4 shifter paddles did what. "Let's see here...this little one shifts up on this side and down on that side, right?" *click* "Nope. D'oh." *click* "Oh, right. Outer paddle, not inner paddle." *click* "!@#$!@$!" The outer shift lever could shift 3 cogs at once, of course, if I could only remember if it was up or down...
I plan on having all of my future bikes use friction shifting, except for any racing bikes I'll be getting. I plan on doing triathlons...glad those Tri/TT bike things use bar-ends
I don't like where they're located as much as STI, but I do like friction shifters. It's tough for me to decide, because the best of both worlds would be friction shifters on the convenient part of the bar...that is, where your hands usually are!
However, they aren't quite as inexpensive as it would appear. Depending on what "level" you're comparing at, bar end shifters plus seperate brake levers isn't that much less then a "brifter", which is your shifter and brake lever together.
Good night...and good luck
Other than on a time trial bike, I'll always take STI or Ergo over bar end shifters.
Surly uses them because they're cheap.
while shifting a bike that his heavily loaded, you can maintain your balance much better if you never have to let go of your handlebars, especially on an climb.
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I have two bikes with bar-end shifters, and one with STI.
I love the bar-end shifting for non-racing applications. My hands are usually in the drops, so bar-ends are actually in a more convenient location than are STI shifters (except for shifting during climbs). Plus I like the friction shifting for the front derailler.
The dura-ace 9-speed bar-end shifters I have on my LHT have a wonderfully positive feel. Shifting is very fast. The 8-speed bar-ends I have on my tandem are slower and have a vague feel to the indexing... that may be because of the long cable length required on the tandem.
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A few advantages for bar-end shifters that weren't mentioned before :
– I know which gear I'm at just by looking at my shifters. Especially useful in the dark and on the tandem.
– Quite accessible from the tops and readily accessible from the drops.
– Works in friction. Especially useful for the front end, because it works with non-standard gears: just trim to your heart's content!
Three noteworthy experiences:
– I prefer by far to set the drops a bit high – about level with the saddle – and to ride mostly on the drops. From the drops, I find not only that bar-end shifters are easy to use, but also that STI shifters are cumbersome. STI works best from the hoods, but I hate that hand position.
– I replace my parts when they are worn or when I need them somewhere else. So for about 2 year, my touring bike was set up with a 9-speed cassette, a 9-speed chain... and 8-speed shifters. No problem, as I used the shifters in friction mode.
– My tandem has 4 chainrings : 48-38-28-18. It's a tight setup, but it works with standard parts: a 105 front derailleur and a bar-end shifter.
Michel Gagnon
Montréal (Québec, Canada)
I have a bike with barcons and a bike with STI. I don't have a functional preference, but the aero levers fit my hands better than the STI do. Plus, the cabling is neater with barcons, and there are no cables to get in the way of my headlight beam.
One other thing... handlebar bags fit when you use barcons because of the inobtrusive cable routing.
I personally do not like bar end shifters. I kept hitting them with my knees at stops. SO I switched to downtube. Better for my use but now I am thinking it might be time to switch to a nexus hub.
Barcons + Tektro brake levers = much cheaper than the cheapest STI.
I like the physicality of the barcons. Just feels right to reach down and whack the lever into place. I could never get happy about the fiddly feeling of STI shifters. YMMV.
My main beef with the Cross-Check complete is that the steerer tube is cut too low, but that's a subject for another thread...
If you have arthritis like me you convert to bar-end or down-tube shifters. You don't need fingers to shift either type. I can shift them with just my palm if the pain is really bad. With STI you must use your thumb and fingers. Twist grips are impossible to use on bad days.
Over a year ago I built an electric shift system. A Basic Stamp microprocessor drives two stepper motors with cams that pull or release the shift cables as required. I just have two buttons to control both a triple front and rear derailleur. The microprocessor is programmed to select the best ratio between the chain rings and cogs for the next up or down shift.


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