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Why is it that we moms would give anything for our kids but neglect the one thing they need most in the world? We give them food when they're hungry, clothes (designer ones at that – at least for my teenage daughter), shelter and unconditional love. And yet, after all this giving, we feel unappreciated and worn down. Like most things in life, the answer is so simple that we often miss it.
Whether you work outside the home or not, moms just don't have enough down time or "me time," as I like to call it. And if we do finally take an hour to get a much needed massage, new hairstyle, pedicure (or shower, for that matter!), we are overwhelmed with guilt.
As I am typing this, my eight-year-old is sitting here reading her book. For about ten seconds. Suddenly, it's, "Mama, guess what?" as she regales me with the latest thing she just read or leaps off the bed to "exercise" on my elliptical.
Don't get me wrong, I would give my life for my children. I have even been known to give them the last of my peanut M&M's at times, but sometimes I just need a break from the prattling, tattling, yammering. The trick is to not feel bad about that. I am slowly in the process of learning that.
So, I get my hair cut and highlighted, and schedule mani/pedis and the occasional massage. I'm even taking a weeklong vacation without them this summer. It won't be easy to relax and enjoy myself without constantly looking for souvenirs to bring home, but I will just have to suck it up and give it my best shot.
In a world that is so frenetic and fast-paced, we all need a breather. My kids go to their rooms to have "alone time" so, why shouldn't I? That way, the time that we do spend together is more relaxed and not full of yelling, arguing, tattling or driving me insane.
So, give yourself a break – literally. If you don't have a significant other or responsible teenager at home to help out, hire a neighborhood one for a few bucks. Go to a movie alone; go to the bookstore and just browse. Take a walk or go to the gym with your iPod. Sit by the window at Starbucks and and people-watch while you sip your well-deserved caramel macchiato.
Or, if you're like me, and don't necessarily want to do everything alone, grab a girlfriend (preferably another worn-out mom) and head out shopping, window shopping, or go to a museum and see an exhibit you've been dying to see but know that your kids wouldn't be interested in.
These times with your friends can be priceless. You can talk to another adult without being constantly interrupted, for one thing, and you can just feel like a woman for a short time instead of a constant caregiver.
Think about it for a minute. We are in charge of housekeeping, laundry, cooking, shopping, teaching, discipline and, above all, keeping other humans alive every day. Those are some pretty heavy responsibilities! Even on family vacations we don't often catch a break.
I call family vacations "just doing my job in an unfamiliar environment." In fact, I feel less refreshed when we return than when we left! There are extra piles of laundry and more bills and excess mail to sort through when you get home, for starters.
I know that I probably don't have to say this, but it is so important to take care of your own health first. It's like when you are on an airplane and they tell you to put on your oxygen mask before you even put one on your child. That goes against every instinct in my body every time I hear it, but it makes perfect sense. If I am incapacitated, who will be there to be my kids' mama?
So, think of these small breaks and treats as using that oxygen mask on the plane. You need oxygen. You need a breather. It is nothing to feel guilty or ashamed about. No matter how much society has programmed us, we are not superwomen. We are fallible human beings who need our sleep, fresh air, healthy food and exercise to enjoy our lives to the fullest.
I've said it before, but take care of yourself first! No guilt, no shame, just the knowledge that you are doing the best that you can for your family.
Trust me, it's worth it. You're worth it. Your body will appreciate it, your spirit will appreciate it, your family will appreciate it, and your kids will have a more energetic, relaxed mom to show for it.


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The most buzzed about movie of the year, The Hunger Games, hits theaters March 23. The first of four films based on Suzanne Collins' bestselling trilogy, it stars last year's Winter's Bone Oscar nominee Jennifer Lawrence as heroine Katniss Everdeen and boasts a cast of such accomplished actors as Woody Harrelson, Stanley Tucci, Donald Sutherland and Elizabeth Banks.
Producer Nina Jacobson, who snared the rights to the tale early on, has a dramatic story of her own to tell. As an executive at Disney from 1998 to 2006, Jacobson developed and oversaw a string of hits, including The Sixth Sense, Pearl Harbor, The Princess Diaries and the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, before being abruptly fired from that job while her partner was in labor (details below). The straight-talking producer quickly rebounded, however, forming her own production company and finding success with its first release, a film based on the juvenile favorite, Diary of a Wimpy Kid.
Here, Jacobson talks about her passionate pursuit of The Hunger Games, how she envisioned the movie, and the decisions that led to its stellar casting.
MORE: I was thinking of you the other day when I saw a screening of Jeff Who Lives At Home (opening March 16). It's a comedy about a guy who's obsessed with Signs. The whole movie's sort of an homage to Signs, which you produced. Have you seen it?
Nina Jacobson: No, I didn't know about it. Is it funny?
More: Very funny. Jason Segel is the slacker and Susan Sarandon is his mother. Ed Helms is in it too. But let's talk about your new movie, The Hunger Games. We're all dying to see it here. At what point did you buy the film rights to the series?
N.J.: It was not yet a big phenomenon. It was doing well, the first one sold I think 100,000 copies. There were other producers competing so there was a bit of a derby and I was driven insane by the thought of anyone else getting a chance to produce it. I had the fan fervor, the obsession. Fortunately I was able to convince Suzanne Collins of that. I felt the book deserved to be adapted with the utmost respect and care given the kind of ethical integrity of the book. Suzanne walked that dangerous edge of writing a book which is about young people and media and violence but the book itself is never guilty of the sins of the Capitol. It's thoughtful and rooted in Katniss' point of view. Susanne never exploits the subject matter in a way that seems unethical.I felt it was important that that tone was retained.
More: How many of the books had you read when you bought it?
N.J.: I had read the first book and galleys of the second. Then we went to buyers. Some places passed, but when they had some interest, we met with those places and looked eye to eye to make sure we all saw the same movie, that they were committed to a PG-13 version as we were, but they weren't going to soften it.
More: Are your kids old enough to read the books?
N.J.: Two are. I have an 11-year-old girl and a 13-year-old boy. I just let the 11-year-old read it. My younger son is 5; obviously I'm not going to let the 5-year-old read it.
More: Do boys read this book? Is it gender neutral like Harry Potter?
N.J.: Yes. Regardless of gender, they were fixated. Boys love this book. My mom read it and she loved it too. It's rare to find anyone who didn't like it.
More: What made you think it would be a good movie?
N.J.: It feels like a movie, so visual, so emotional, it manages to be both intimate and epic. It's personal and yet the world lays itself out in a way that your imagination paints a picture for you. It's our world but wrong.
More: I always describe it as Miss America meets Survivor.
N.J.: Suzanne was watching both American Idol and the Iraq war when she came up with the idea.
More: What appeals to you in Katniss as a heroine? She's far different from Twilight's Bella.
N.J.: What I love about Katniss is that she really is not defined by her romantic longings. If anything, the men surrounding her are more prone to romance than she is. She's prone to survival. She has incredible survival instincts and protective feelings for her sister. What I love about the book is with each book she takes on a concentric circle of concern. It starts with her family, and as it evolves, she embraces Rue, then Peeta, then her District. With each book she takes more responsibility, and yet her instinct is always to fight for herself and her family. I think that's very human and honest. I love how imperfect she is in that regard. The men in her life are more focused on their romantic feelings for her; that's not what drives her.
More: Katniss has the two dueling suitors. And Bella has two, the vampire and the werewolf. In True Blood—it's not a YA book, but a lot of kids read it or watch it—Sookie has two vampires and two werewolves vying for her.
N.J.: Conflct is more interesting than harmony. I think that for Katniss the journey is about learning to trust, to care and put somebody else's needs ahead of her own family. Her learning to trust supersedes the love triangle. I don't see it as a love triangle story in the way Twilight is. Largely, Katniss is learning to care about others.
More: What do you think is her prime appeal?
N.J.: She has a nurturing fierceness. When I first met Jennifer Lawrence, she talked about that. We've seen the female badass, the woman warrior. Kat's fitness comes out of protectiveness, nurturing. That's powerful. She feels like an honest heroine, someone you can relate to. You can feel being in her shoes. She's not fearless by any stretch; she struggles to step up and take her place. It's the story of a girl who over time steps up and becomes a revolutionary. She's a heroine for our times.
More: Our other favorite heroine, Lizbeth Salander in The Dragon Tattoo books, is also ferocious, but she has the Aspergers Syndrome and the rape.
N.J.: The experiences of the books are very different. Lisbeth when you meet her is very damaged already. With Katniss, you see the experience of the Hunger Games leaves a mark. She's been through a lot, but is not as damaged.
More: Do you know how many adult women have read The Hunger Games series?
N.J.: I don't know. All the moms on my daughter's soccer team have read it. It's absolutely crossed over. What's unusual is that men can be enthusiastic too…it's very different from Twilight, which is female driven. It's more like Harry Potter.
More: Why is YA so hot now? Why do even adults read YA books ? Did Harry Potter start it?
N.J.: Good question. There's a lot of great writing in YA. It's a hot growth area for very talented people. Maybe some of us—when you read a book it can take you back to your reading self, not your outer self. I myself read a lot of YA books. There's an enthusiasm to them and some extraordinary good writing. Harry Potter is still one of the best books you'll ever read. And for a writer, you have enthusiastic readers, you're building a young audience, a captive audience, you'll get read.
More: What led you to cast Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss?
N.J.: When you see her in Winter's Bone, you see elements of Katniss in her, the qualities that emerge in that performance. When you have a character you love, who exists in your imagination—we knew we had to cast the very best actress who gave the best audition. So you don't focus on hair color, but the inner quality. Jennifer stole the part in the audition. She made us cry, the casting director cry, and she had both a fierceness and a tenderness, a fire and a vulnerability. Hair color was the least of our worries—people said, "but she's blonde," but what's great is, we could change her hair color!
More: Both Lawrence and the actor playing Peeta are from Kentucky—happenstance or is there something in the bluegrass?
N.J.: Happenstance—although ironically Josh, because he came from Kentucky and made it here was somebody Jennifer pointed to as an argument to her parents that she could make it in L.A.
More: Do they both have that soft Kentucky accent?
N.J.: Not at all, no accents, but both come from kind, nice, normal families—no crazy parents!
More: I always saw Jack Nicholson as Haymitch, although he's way too old. In the chat rooms they were all rooting for Hugh Laurie from House. How did you get to Woody Harrelson?
N.J.: Haymitch has to be in a certain age range because he has competed within the last 25 years. We knew a rough age range, and talked about a lot of different names, but what we all loved about Woody is he has so much range and complexity but he has that mischief, that troublemaker glint in his eye. The feeling was that it would be wrong to overestimate him, but it would be easy to do so. He can play the clown yet be a force to reckon with. He's a fantastic Haymitch. I'm very happy with him, with the whole cast.
More: I think Stanley Tucci will also be great as Caesar Flickerman.
N.J.: Tucci has that charisma and he looks great with blue hair.
More: Elizabeth Banks was a surprise as Effie Trinket.
N.J.: She was very passionate about the part. She has the comedic chops but also the dramatic grounding to make it feel normal. She was inspired by Joel Grey in Cabaret.
More: What was the biggest challenge in making the movie?
N.J.: I know how much people love this book because I feel that way myself. People love it ferociously and knowing that, you want to make a movie that satisfies, lives up to their expectations and captures what makes it so special. You feel like it belongs to you and you don't want anyone to mess up.
More: There's a lot of pressure on the movie, a lot of expectations. How do you handle that?
N.J.: Just keep working on the movie and do everything I can to make it as good as it can be. That's the joy of working on something you care about
More: What are you reading now?
N.J.: Buzz, by Katherine Ellison, a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter, about her son's ADD. On audio, I'm listening to Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None, with my daughter and partner—and now there are only two of them left! My son is reading Stephen King's Running Man. I reread City of Thieves and read The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater; my daughter and I both readShiver, by the same author. I just read Daughter of Smoke and Bones by Laini Taylor—thumbs up to that, too. My daughter said, " You have the best job ever! You get paid to read books and watch movies!"
More: What are you looking to buy now? Anything specific? N.J.: I'm mostly looking to fall in love. Now I'm spoiled. After Diary of a Wimpy Kid and The Hunger Games, I expect to have that passion, engagement, the feeling that it has to be made and made well.
More: Since you were one of the few women to run a studio, and this question keeps coming up, I'll ask you: Why are there still so few female directors?
N.J.: I've asked myself and I'm not sure I have a good answer. You're not imagining it, but obviously part of it is it's a tough time to get movies made and many getting made are with people who are the usual suspects. It's a small club reappearing. There's not a whole lot of new blood because it is musical chairs, and there are fewer chairs than players. But I'm not sure why there are so few women directing. Cathy Bigelow is the shout out but there aren't a whole lot of others. When you look at the balance of things, it's not encouraging.
More: One reason that has been suggested to me—by women, actually—is that it's such an intense job, demanding so much time away from home, and women with children don't want to do that.
N.J.: It is all-consuming and the amount of time you have to spend away from home makes it hard for a woman with children. But biology as destiny doesn't seem the answer.
More: I read that you were fired by Disney when you were in the delivery room.
N.J.: My partner was delivering our third child. I don't think this was a big plan of theirs, but the news broke in the press right at the time. When I called to find out if the rumbling was true, I was fired when my partner was in labor. Luckily, I'd had two babies and not been fired.
More: What was your reaction?
N.J.: Surprise. But I was able to keep it in perspective because of the birth of a child, which is much more important
More: What would you tell your 20-years-younger self?
N.J.: "Good news! Some day you will get to wear jeans to the office again!" If I could give my power suit self that news, it would be a great comfort to me. Also, and I guess I will sound corny, but no matter what you see or experience, kindness is not weakness. I think I've been able to survive a tumultuous business by trying to treat people with kindness, compassion and respect. I think it does matter and it does pay off in every day life as well as over the long haul. So I'd tell my younger self that it's not naïve to think that those things actually matter, and they will pay off in the long term. I got fired from my first two jobs in the movie business in the first 18 months, so you can question if you're cut out for the movie business if you're not an animal. I would tell my younger self that you don't have to be an animal.
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General Contenta) What are the expectations for the outcome of Rio+20, and what are the concrete proposals in this regard, including views on a possible structure of the Outcome document? As a participant from Cameroon in the Tunza international youth and children conference at Bandung Indonesia that took place from the 27th September-1st October 2011.I strongly recommend the Bandung declaration titled the voice of children and youth as a roadmap for Rio+12 to the politicians to hear voice of the youths who are the next generation of decision-makers and who stand for action and change.By protecting and defending the rights of youths for environmental justice to all should be the main outcome.
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Computer technology was developing rapidly when MIT engineers Ken Olsen and Harlan Anderson had the idea to manufacture and sell small, interactive computers with real-time interaction and graphical output. They dreamed of equipping businesses with a smaller, more affordable and user-friendly computer than the huge mainframes currently available. They started Digital Equipment Corporation in 1957 selling stand-alone computer modules, and began developing computers in the 1960s.
Digital's first series of computers, the PDP (or "Programmable Data Processor") series, quickly became popular for business use in the 60s. The PDP-8 became the world's first successful minicomputer, and the PDP-1 is still famous today for being instrumental in the development of early hacker culture.
Sales of Digital's minicomputers grew the business throughout the next few decades until they peaked in the 1980s. With $14 billion in annual sales, they were the largest computer company in the industry second only to IBM, the largest employer in Massachusetts besides the state government, and ranked among the most profitable companies in the entire United States.
In 1985, Digital became the fifth company ever to register a .com domain name when they purchased dec.com. In 1993 they also registered digital.com, and became the world's first computer vendor to open a public website on October 1 of that year.
In December of 1995, Digital used the domain to launch one of the Internet's first comprehensive search engines, AltaVista, at altavista.digital.com. (AltaVista was purchased by Yahoo in 2003 and shut down permanently in 2013.)
The photo above shows an early mainframe computer in action, thanks to this Flickr user.
It was about this time that Digital's fortunes began to falter.
Though minicomputers made Digital a fortune throughout the 60s and 70s, their popularity didn't last.
With the invention of increasingly powerful microprocessors, minicomputers gave way to microcomputers in the 1980s, leaving Digital in the dust. New personal computers like the Commodore 64 were smaller, cheaper, and easier for individuals to use without requiring an IT team or huge data centers. The Commodore 64 quickly became the best selling computer of all time, a title it still holds today.
Kenneth Olsen, co-founder of Digital and its CEO from the beginning, believed that personal computers were just a passing fad, mere toys suited for playing games. "The personal computer will fall flat on its face in business," he famously predicted.
But by the 1990s, almost every minicomputer company that failed to shift into the personal computer business had folded or merged. Digital's sales began to decline every year, and the company was forced to make its first layoffs in history.
After almost a decade of losing money or barely breaking even, Digital was acquired by Compaq in 1998. At the time, it was the largest merger ever in the industry. But Compaq struggled with the failing company, and soon was in trouble itself, compounded by the dot-com bubble burst in the late 90s. Unable to recover, Compaq was acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 2002.
Along with Digital's products, HP also acquired the domains dec.com and digital.com.
The Digital brand was retired in the early 2000s, and in 2010, HP started in earnest to try to sell the digital.com domain, including an auction at DomainFest. The reserve (reportedly $1-5 million) was not met.
In 2014, HP put the name up for auction again, receiving rather more interest this time around. The renewed attempts to sell the domain were perhaps connected with their October 2014 announcement that HP will split into two companies by the end of 2015: Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, which will focus on servers, software and cloud technology; and HP Inc., focused on the legacy computers and printers business.
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Serre Chevalier is a big south-facing valley, between the Col du Lautaret and Briançon with 13 villages dotted along it going from ultra-modern hamlets to old-style villages. Each resort is served by a good lift system and it is easy to ski between the resorts. The bus system for ski holidays in Serre Chevalier is efficient and it does not matter if you end up in the wrong resort at the end of the day.
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ZF-12492: assertHeaderContains
assertHeaderContains and assertNotHeaderContains Fails when match is at the beginning of the string. This is caused the the strstr function returning 0 which is being evaluated to false.
Fix is simple by just doing a cast to bool:
Zend_Test_PHPUnit_Constraint_ResponseHeader::_headerContains: return (strstr($contents, $match) !== false);
Zend_Test_PHPUnit_Constraint_ResponseHeader::_notHeaderContains: return (strstr($contents, $match) === false);
Corrrection to description, If '0' is used for the string it will be evaluated as false: ex $this->assertHeaderContains('Expires', '0');
Hi Chuck, can you add a patch and an unit test?
Working on it now
Here are the patches for the tests and fix
Thanks! I will check and commit this.
Fixed on trunk (25204) and release-1.12 (25205)
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Meryl Comer talks about her new book with My Fox DC, co-founder Peter Thiel talks about his efforts to cheat death, and Lilly CEO John Lechleiter talks about the need to invest in Alzheimer's research (read more).
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George Vradenburg talks big data, Alzheimer's prevention programs, and AstraZeneca signs a $500 deal with Eli Lilly on Alzheimer's research (read more).
New study finds that 46 percent of caregivers spend more than $5,000 a year on elderly family members, Marie Marley profiles the work of USAgainstAlzheimer's in HuffingtonPost, and CNN highlights ActivistAgainstAlzheimer's member Sandy Halperin, and a new study from the NFL finds three in 10 ex-NFL players will develop "at least moderate neurocognitive problems as they age" (read more).
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Shooting injures two in Lexington
Published: Sunday, June 16, 2013 at 5:10 p.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, June 16, 2013 at 6:55 p.m.
A shooting incident left two people hospitalized with nonlife-threatening injuries Sunday afternoon in Lexington.
Lexington police say Atori Lamorris Lee, 23, of North Pugh Street, and Jakeel Malik Craven, 19, of Hallmark Drive, were shot about 2:20 p.m. at the Best Food Mart, which is at 203 Raleigh Road.
One victim was treated and released at Wake Forest Baptist Health – Lexington Medical Center. A second victim is being treated at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem and has nonlife-threatening injuries, said Maj. Mark Sink, of the Lexington Police Department. A hospital spokesman could find no information on either of the shooting victims.
Sink said he could not provide any details about any possible suspects and the investigation is ongoing.
"It's still early in the investigation, but we are asking anyone with information to contact Lexington Police Department or (Lexington Area) Crime Stoppers," Sink said.
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2012 Race Category Changes
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Coffee Talk Tuesday has returned and we can't think of a topic more sensitive than racing category changes and the ACA has some new ones in 2012. The letter below is pretty brief and to the point so no summary is needed.
From the ACA
Hello Colorado racing community,
We are making a couple of significant changes to the race categories for the 2012 season. This change is being made so that we can offer consistent categories for our athletes and promoters.
The first major change is the introduction of the Category 5 category. This category is designed for athletes new to the sport of competitive cycling. Many of our race directors and clubs have asked to include this category, and with our new partnership with USAC, this is a natural addition to our race days. Please note that Category 5 is not age-specific, is not part of the Cup competitions, and is not a State Championship category.
Because of the introduction of Category 5, we are eliminating the 'Open' categories in both Senior and Master racing. Races will defined by specific categories (example: Senior Men Open becomes Senior Men Pro 1-2, Senior Women Open becomes Senior Women Pro 1-2, Senior Men 35+ Open becomes Senior Men 35+ 1-2, Senior Men 45+ Open becomes Senior Men 45+ 1, 2,3, etc.)
An additional change to our categories lies in our Senior Men 35+. In the past, we have offered Senior Men 35+ Open, Senior Men 35+ Cat 3, and Senior Men 35+ Cat 4 races. In 2012, the relevant categories will be Senior Men 35+ 1-2, Senior Men 35+ 3, and Senior Men 35+ Cat 4. The ACA created 35+ Cat 3 two years ago, but gave the athletes the choice as to which category in which to race. This change is being made to help standardize our categories and race fields on race day, so that our 35+ fields use the same category system as our Seniors. Essentially, racers now must race the specific category that is printed on their racing license. Please note that at many of our events, 35+ 1-2 and 35+ Cat 3 will be combined on race day, but separated for results and the overall points competition.
This change affects a number of 35+ racers who are licensed as Category 3 but enjoyed racing in what was previously the Open category. If you or your teammates are in this position, you may:
1- Contact Yvonne asap with your resume and desire to upgrade before the season starts.
2- Earn enough points to upgrade from 35+ Cat 3 to 35+ Cat 2.
It is the ACA's goal to create fair, safe, competitive and fun racing for all of our categories, and at the same time, to create a balanced race day that is manageable and profitable for our race directors.
Please direct questions regarding these category changes to Chris McGee at 303-458-5538 or
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these changes are great!
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
these changes are great! Long time coming.
Points: 7
I don't know if this is such a good thing
Submitted by jrice (not verified) on
We are getting to the point of diluting out races with too many categories. Promoters are now faced with the choice of which races to put on in order to get the most riders/revenue. This will sacrifice one of two things. They will need to: a) shorten race duration in order to accommodate all categories. b) put on races where they believe the best numbers are and eliminate others.
How are promoters going to fit all these categories it a race day?
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Grealish figured it out, I
Submitted by RoadieBrad (not verified) on
Grealish figured it out, I guess others will just have to manage.
Points: 9
except that he put the 35+3
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
except that he put the 35+3 before the SM3. otherwise, the start order is fine.
Points: -2
JW with SM3
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Is it just me or is it a bad idea to start the JW 17-18 with the SM3?
Points: 8
Ya it can be....
Submitted by Kris Thompson on
Yes is can be, I remember when one of the Eckmann brothers started 2 minutes behind the SM3's at Boulder Cup and still was able to catch the field AND pass the ENTIRE field to win the SM3... after starting 2 minutes back.
So, yes it can be a bad idea.
Points: 2
Uh, Kris
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
I'm pretty sure there aren't ANY junior WOMEN as strong as either of the Eckmann brothers.
Points: 1
A Road Race is a bit different
Submitted by jrice (not verified) on
Road racing is a bit different. You can run all cat's pretty much at the same time. You can't do that for Crits (which Colorado is heavy on)
Points: 11
RR's are different
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Totally useless example, a RR is different. Look at his flyer he is running 9 different groups at once during the morning period. You cannot do that with a crit, or a circuit race. Verses doing it at a RR like Roubaix does not really increase his cost or length of race day. Compare that to say Hugo where they need to have a police car per field I think. In 2011 they went back more to the old way and had to consolidate a bunch of categories, they literally had too many small fields. Hugo is an example where more cats cost more $.
Crits are different as you cannot run 9 fields at once.
We have too many masters categories in CO, it is funny. How about we go to masters A, B, C, and D. When you look at the 37 different categories we run they could easily be broken down into a lot fewer groups if we just did it by ability/speed, not the arbitrary ages we use now. Too many masters guys/gals seem to prefer to race against small fields.
Points: 13
amen, I've been saying this
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
amen, I've been saying this for years.
hopefully the cat 5 addition will eliminate the need for all the masters special categories - they were originally created because the masters were "afraid of crashing" with the sr men.
I say just cut it to Masters A/B and be done with it, like they do pretty much everywhere else in the country including California.
For crits, they will be retaining the blue/yellow designation which will split crit days between masters and seniors cats anyhow. So the 37 flavors of masters event thing may not change rapidly, but I'd imagine there will be external promoter pressure to change especially for larger / regional events.
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If the snow isn't reason enough, January in Utah brings international crowds in for the annual Sundance Film Festival. And don't forget the Utah Winter Games, which include Super Clinics for various events as well as races and competitions indoor and out.But the fun doesn't just end in springtime, there's a lot to do here after the snow melts. From desert to mountain and everything in between, Utah offers more territory than any weekend vacationer can cover.
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- 1 cup seasoned bread crumbs, divided
- 2 packages (10 ounces each) frozen chopped spinach, thawed and squeezed dry
- 3 cups (24 ounces) 4% cottage cheese
- 1/2 cup grated Romano or Parmesan cheese
- 5 eggs
- Preheat oven to 350°. Sprinkle 1/4 cup bread crumbs into a greased 8-in.-square baking dish. Bake 3-5 minutes or until golden brown.
- Meanwhile, in a large bowl, combine spinach, cottage cheese, Romano cheese, three eggs and remaining crumbs. Spread over the baked crumbs. Beat remaining eggs; pour over spinach mixture.
- Bake, uncovered, at 350° 45 minutes or until a knife inserted near the center comes out clean. Let stand 5-10 minutes before serving. Yield: 9 servings.
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"I made this with sharp cheddar in place of the Romano cheese, and we liked it. I did add a handful of diced onion, but we felt it really wasn't needed. My one beef is that there was no way this would fit in one 8x8" pan! We ended up preparing an extra one and baking both for 30 minutes. This is a good but easy basic recipe you can do a lot with, according to your preferences. I'll be making it again, for sure."
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I'm surprised the Democrats had even heard of Utah, let alone would hold their meeting here in the most Republican state in the union. The meeting doubled the number of Democrats in the state. People were driving up from Provo just to get a look at them, never having seen a Democrat before.
They held their meeting at the Montage, which even in the week before Deer Valley opens is a pretty deluxe setting. They probably got a deal on the rooms. Nobody else would want to stay there this time of year. But Democrats at the Montage? Really? Somehow, I expected these great defenders of the common man to hold their meeting in a gritty hotel with a proper union staff and all-you-can-eat buffet set up in the lobby bar. Even if the whole event was donated, holding it at the Montage seems a little awkward. Still, if somebody wants to spend some big money here during the snow-less first week in December, roll out the welcome mat.
The ongoing soap opera that is Service Area 6 keeps getting interesting. Legally, the county's General Fund and the various service areas are as separate and distinct as Kamas is from Coalville. They have their own budgets and their own income, and aren't supposed to be sloshing cash back and forth.
Residents are beginning to prepare for the long winter of isolation that lies ahead. The "Sixers," as the residents of this benighted region are known, are forming militias, stocking up on canned goods, and keeping armed guard over their snowblowers. The shelves at Whole Foods are already stripped bare of organic post-consumer recycled toilet paper. It's hard to know how effective their preparations will be. When you come right down to it, your average Sixer is not really equipped for life on the frontier.
Viewing this from the east side of Summit County, which is Service Area 0, the prospects don't look good. On the east side, nobody expects regular snow-removal service. I live at the end of 10 miles of state highway that isn't plowed after dark. UDOT actually put up little warning signs that let the residents of Woodland know they are on their own once the sun goes down. We are in the "no-service area," and OK with it. If they plowed the snow regularly, well, nothing good is going to come from that. You never know what kind of people will start moving in if the water mains don't freeze up now and then. The typical east-sider is more adept at putting on tire chains than tying a necktie. We use grizzly-bear milk in our coffee because it's easier than going to the store.
But the suburbanized Sixers are soft of hand and dependent on the county to free them from winter's icy grip. When the wolves are howling on the back deck, right there under the pergola between the water feature and the hot tub, they call animal control instead of going for their rifles. It's possible that, when pressed to the limit, the Sixers would form volunteer brigades of snowblowers and, in matching Patagonia shells embroidered with the logo of their subdivision, heroically open a supply route out of Silver Springs to the highway with an armada of 24-inch Toros. Or they could just get snowed in and resort to cannibalism.
On the east side, trucks with plow blades on them are as common a household implement as spatulas. How many of the Audis in Pinebrook are equipped with front-end loaders? Many Sixers chose to live in the mountains, but this winter we will learn if they are really mountain people. They have come to expect all the accoutrements of suburban life, and are overwhelmingly willing to pay for snowplowing.
The proposed tax increase that has been successfully bollixed up was around $50 a year. But when the plows run out of money and get parked for the season, the desperate cul-de-sac dwellers will have no place to turn for help. Maybe the black helicopters from the UN will air-drop pallets of canned good in the frozen reaches of the 'burbs.
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Okay. I may be over thinking this but here it is. I have a 762SD awaiting approval and a 7.62x39mm AR15 with a carbine length gas system, external piston and a foot of barrel and suppressor between the gas port and the suppressor outlet. AAC assured me that the suppressor bore was big enough for the 7.62x39mm bullet but did not give an exact bore diameter.
Now for the paranoia: I think I am at a risk of an end cap or baffle strike because of the short carbine gas system starting to actuate The piston before the bullet exits the barrel, add the 6 inches of barrel after the gas port and the 6 inches of suppressor the bullet passes through all of which is moving as the rifle cycles.
Now why I think it is just paranoia: Aren't integrally suppressed AK's like 5 inch barrels with (I'm guessing) 8 or so inches of suppressor tube before the outlet? Surely the bullet exits the suppressor before the gas system starts the cycling sequence?
Personally I think it will be just fine but with a $1500 investment riding on something just for fun, I'd rather be safe than sorry. (Just for fun because the suppressor is mainly for the Savage 10 and the x39 AR is for S&G)


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sup Nanaki, that's a bangin avatar
sup Nanaki, that's a bangin avatar
I'm really thinking of maining him
No, it's a last ditch effort to save new members from you and the Lord94 virus
If you admit to being a total hypocrite about the situation, why would you continue to argue?
And what, pray tell, are we doing that is so virus like?
I was saying I was being a hypocrite by calling you a whiney jerk while coming across as a whiney jerk.
The Lord94 virus and you
better? I thought that was easy enough to depict
What is your definition of a 'whiney jerk'
Fuck you, nanaki. Hardly anyone is going to read this thread and no one is going to take it seriously.
I am a good poster. I don't moan and complain all the time.
Oh, and I don't rape threads. I normally say something simple, like hi, and you all RANT AND COMPLAIN THAT I'M A CUNT, thus, you have raped the thread.
You still have failed to give a reason as to why no one will take it seriously.
No, you're a bastard rapist that does ruin threads with pointless faggotry. You claim you improve, but you're the same fucking person. You are not a good poster whatsoever and you probably never will be. You come in, be a douche bag 95% of the time, then people bitch. Yes, every NOW AND THEN, maybe 1 out of every 50 threads you post in, you aren't a massive cunt, then no one bitches.
Seriously, you think that because that is what you tell yourself to think.
Take a deep breath and calm down. This thread is a failure, but you don't have to take your frightening anger out on me.
You're still avoiding the question, why do you think people won't take this seriously? Do you actually kids yourself by saying people like you on this forum?
Now you're trying to avoid everything by telling me to calm down. I think that because I know that. Take the sneasel thread or the He's So Full of Himself threads. Think of your entire career as Oni Raichu. You are a thread rapist END OF DISCUSSION.
Well, Nanaki, the world doesn't resolve around you, nor you secluded misc friends. I have plenty of friends here.
This thread wont be taken seriously cuz YOU WERE THE ONE THAT TYPED IT.
Seeing as, you know, YOU ARE A BLOODY BACKGROUND POSTER
And my Oni Raichu career?
You're coming out with so much shit - just stop
I never stated that I thought that the world or this forum revolves around me or the misc, so that whole statement is irrelevant.
This thread won't be taken seriously because I made it? Who is the target audience? Mario? Tim? You? No, new members that just joined. I made this because I wanted to say "hey, Lord94 is a faggot, here are his alts and that the Editor spews random shit." Fucking period. Can you not get that through your mind?
I have no right to warn new members of your various alternate accounts, horrible posting habits and such? Since when did you have authority to disallow such things?
I am a background poster. What that means is I don't suck, but I'm not an elite and such. It means I'm just a poster, it doesn't limit me to do anything anyone else could fucking do.
Your twenty five pairs consisted of brand new members, members that you kissed ass to and members such as DB and Boycrazies who just accept any request. Who the fuck gives a shit about how many pairs you had? Hell, people on that list have admitted to wishing they hadn't said yes. Again, your Oni Raichu account was had a completely fake attitude to it and you only one people over by acting different then your usual self.
I've had enough of your faggotry. Now once again, hush.
The fact is that why you arent able to make this thread. Its immature, hypocrisy and discrimination. And you have no right to do anything like that.
After all, everyone is born equal.
Yeah, but then creampies like you feel the need to fuck yourselves up.
How is this hypocracy? Do I go to all of the introduction threads and spoonfeed them bullshit like "I'm a good poster!" and shit like that? No.
Discrimination? Elaborate, as I do not see how I am discriminating anyone.
Don't try to bullshit me with the whole "everyone is born equal thing" because you definitely were born a few thousand brain cells short with shot human to human skills.
And Nanaki, don't forget that he had four or five pairs on there that never agreed to being a pair and he just put on there to look cool.
Even though this thread does have a sort of purpose, you are really kissing ass Nanaki. You could've just told Tim to update.
Whatever, you just took a HUGE weight of his shoulders.
How is this ass kissing in any way.
For the last fucking time, the thread is for new members to see that the Editor and Lord are faggots, NO OTHER REASON.
Tim would have just said he is too lazy anyways.
This is too funny to pass up a comment,
why do bad posters create alts, they will be banned anyway...just a waste of room if you ask me...
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i think the editor has officially become a noticeable pd personality. he can be QUITE the faggot at times, but generally i like having him around to mess with. hes like an inferior version of ks.
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Thursday, representatives of the state office of Senior Corp RSVP were hosted by Norma Strabala, director of the Stuttgart/North Arkansas County RSVP, at the Stuttgart office at Phillips Community College of the University of Arkansas (PCCUA).
The representatives discussed the upcoming service projects in their respective regions and communities across the state of Arkansas.
"The group came together to bring the old and the new in a roundtable discussion," Strabala said.
Susan Reahl, director of RSVP in the Fort Smith area, said Stuttgart is one of the friendliest communities; and everyone seems to volunteer, Norma Strabala seems to know everyone and everyone knows her.
"The Stuttgart RSVP will have two upcoming upcoming service projects with emphasis on 9/11 service projects and Dr. Martin Luther King Day of Service," Strabala said.
Strabala said the local 9/11 service project will be a reading program by local volunteers, leaders and public servants focusing on volunteers and heroes after the Sept. 11 attacks.
A another service project is to focus on the Little Rock Nine of the Little Rock Central High School Crisis in 1957 and how it effects us now in conjunction with the observance of Dr. Martin Luther King Day.
"Stuttgart has one of the highest ratio of senior volunteers in the state of Arkansas," Opal Sims, Corporation for National and Community Service state director, said.
RSVP, which was founded in central Arkansas in 1972, assists individuals age 60 and older by putting their skills, energy and life experience to work for their communities.
RSVP volunteers do a variety of things in the community and there are more the 450,000 seniors, who participate in RSVP nationally, making it one of the largest volunteer efforts in the nation.
The representatives came from Fort Smith, Harrison, El Dorado, Pine Bluff, Jonesboro, Augusta, Little Rock, Hot Springs and Texarkana.
The representatives toured the campus of PCCUA and the Grand Prairie Center. For more information on the Stuttgart RSVP, contact Strabala at (870) 673-8584.
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I remembered tasting these at the Fancy Food Show last year and was immediately impressed. Traditional gummi bears never really caught me, as I found the flavors to be too bland. These were just the opposite, with bold flavors and interesting ingredients. I vowed to keep and eye out for them in stores, and a few months later I was rewarded for my persistence. I chose the Blueberry Acai flavor over the Green Tea one I found as well. Something about the deep color of these just appealed to me, and I knew I'd have fun photographing them.
Firstly, I think it's cute how they refer to these as pandas and not bears. They're adorable to look at with little nubbins for arms and legs and bulgy eyes.
The pandas are beautiful in their simplicity. The gummi texture is just as it should be: nice balance of soft and firm so you get a chew, but nothing too hard so it isn't a difficult task to separate a head. Yes, I do like to do that sometimes. The flavor is wonderfully bright and fruity. You taste the blueberry and it's authentic, sweet, deep berry flavor with tart notes to it. I don't know quite what acai tastes like, but I'm sure it's in there.
I'll be picking these up again when my extremely rare craving for gummi bears, er, pandas arise.
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10 Essential Elements Need For A Successful Website – Online Branding
A website is the home of your company. It needs to convey your message properly to your visitors. All business websites needs to have certain elements to be successful. I've broken it down to my list of 10 essential elements needed for a website. All websites should have the following:
A. WOW factor
B. Be clean and professional
C. Have a clear call to action
D. Contact information
E. FAQ and/or help section
F. Industry terminology section
G. Credible and professional copywriting
H. Updating information
I. Email/newsletter sign up
J. Theme that focuses on their overall brand's image and core values.
1. WOW Factor
Let's start with the "WOW factor". Something about the company, the logo, website design, and how it all ties together has to make a definite impact on your visitors and give a lasting impression that keeps your website in their mind. The ultimate goal of every website is to inform, sell, and support a product or service. A great "WOW factor" can give you is buzz and create word of mouth, what we call viral marketing.
It can be simply the way your website is designed, or the simplicity of your message that can be a WOW factor. When brainstorming the name for our Internet marketing company we needed a name that was easily memorable, easily write able and pronounceable, and created a mystery and curiosity about the company; "What does that company do?" is what we wanted from people in the beginning.
Out of that environment the name "Karma Snack" was then born. We've talked to hundreds of clients and visitors and they all stated out of the blue they love the "Karma Snack" name. It's sticks with them in meetings and even long after their encounter with us.
We had one client state that of all the Internet marketing companies he talked to, he only remembers the "Karma Snack" name. When we heard that, we knew we were onto something.
In all our marketing efforts from the way the Karma Snack's comic book Logo, to the website design, and now recently launched redesign we incorporate a WOW factor to grab the visitors attention. Your company's website need a WOW factor, something that separates you from the competition, and give you an edge.
2. Clean and Professional
A professional website has to be clean and "professional". Make sure all of your web pages are complete, coherent, and have a clear call you action on what you want your visitor to do next. The flow of your website has to lead a visitor to the end result of either buying a product, filling out a form, or picking up the phone to call to order your product or service. Professionalism is needed at every level.
There is professionalism and then corporate tight-asses. I'm not talking about necessarily having a corporate tight-ass look. It really depends on your industry and what you can get away with. Some industries like banks cannot get away with much in terms of creativity, but then there are websites like rock bands for example, that need the flair and need to create the in your face experience. But that rock band still needs to be professional. They need to sell CD and tour tickets, so they need mandatory things like a payment gateway, and a place to buy their music, whether it is on iTunes or Amazon.
A big thing about being professional with your website is not to have any of these "Under Construction" or "Coming Soon" web pages. If you don't have content or a feature, REMOVE IT. Imagine if you turn on your computer and have bought an additional monitor to create a dual monitor setup, then plug in your new monitor, and on the screen it pops up "Dual monitor support COMING SOON". Unless you have a firm launch date for something, "coming soon" could be tomorrow, or 2 years from now. Remove those "under construction" and "coming soon" pages until they are actually here, that way you don't piss off your current visitors.
3. Clear Call To Action
Having a clear call to action is crucial for a website. If you have a product or service you want new visitors for, you need to lay out in layman's terms exactly what you want visitors to do. It sounds simple and easy, but you will be surprised as to how many websites there are that have visitors circling their web pages without clear directions.
Use visible and contrasting colors to get the attention of clear call to actions. For example, if you're website is predominately red, use a blue button for your call to action so users can focus on it. Write clear directive content, "click here to request a proposal/quote", "fill out our form on the left hand side", "Contact Us today at 305.397.8088 to request a free website analysis".
Images speak a thousand words, when creating a call to action, try to have a visual image that will also mentally send the message of what is suppose to happen once on the page. An example is on your contact page where you have a form to fill out, have an image of a person that would be in your targeted audience on a computer filling out a form. That will get the "picture" across.
Remember you website is being built to attract new visitors, people that have never been on your website before, or many be new to the Internet altogether. If a brand new visitor goes to your website, they need to be able to find out more information about your company, contact you, and learn about your services, easily and effortlessly. Clean navigation is a big key here.
4. Generous Contact Information
Have you ever gone to a website and really wanted to buy a product, but the website didn't have a contact phone number, and when exploring the website further you can't find anything about the company, it's physical location, who runs the company, or anything. With all of the horror stories you hear about people being robbed online or they gave their credit card information and never got the product in the back of your mind, are you more or less likely to buy that product you where looking for from that website?
Most people are looking for a reason not to do business with you; everyone is skeptical, especially online. Putting your contact information, your physical location – if possible, and maybe a photo of your team, helps people feel at easy with whom they are doing business with. Put a friendly face behind your website.
There are certain standards that each industry has to contact them, use those and improve upon them. If for example most people only take email forms of communication in your industry, do that as well as create an online form for people to fill out and place your contact phone number there as well. Take that extra step to give the appearance that you are more accessible than your competition.
The one thing I always do for an e-commerce websites is put a phone number to customer support on every page. Now that doesn't mean I necessary want them to call customer support, but it give potential shoppers a great piece of mind to see a phone number there. The majority of people will buy more products on a website when it has a phone number on every page versus a number on only the contact us page. These are small things that add up to create a better psychological user experience.
5. FAQ and/or Help section
Every product or service provider knows there are key questions most potential customers ask. Having a section on your website answering these questions help you avoid answering repetitive questions.
Since they are also common questions, people are most likely searching for them online using a search engine as well. People that you probably aren't marketing to, but since you have A FAQ section, and your website is search engine friendly, now will come to your website looking for answers to their questions. Need I say more?
Another interesting thing about certain types of web visitors is they will visit a website several times over and over when it is their first time in the marketing for a particular product or service and read the same information over and over to absorb it, before making a decision. To these people the FAQ is a gold mine. This characteristic in shoppers does turn out to be a great thing though; they become more loyal of a customer once you get them.
Make sure you also update your FAQs on a monthly basis, Add new questions, and elaborate more on an old question in case there is new information or you find out something is still not clear. Also, a good thing is to add a date that it was recently updated to in the section. This give the visitors piece of mind that you maintain your website and are constantly following up.
6. Industry Terminology Section
Industry specific terms exist for each niche and market sectors. New customers or clients may not be aware of them, and having your own "dictionary" of industry specific terms will help clients understand your industry's overall message.
Another great advantage for search engine optimization is that simply having these terms on your website will also help increase traffic to your website from the search engine. You may have the perfect definition for a particular industry phrase/term that visitors can understand, and when The big G (Google), sees that several hundreds of visitors are going to your terms and staying in that section for minutes at a time, they will understand that you have something valuable to offer, in return send you even more traffic. Search engines will also have a better understanding of what it is that you exactly offer, and will in turn send to you better more high targeted traffic.
Having an industry terms section also helps people not feel foolish for not knowing or understanding something you said or wrote in an article. That gives them better piece of mind and creates an almost unbreakable bond with your brand, since you are teaching them about new things.
7. Credible and Professional Copywriting
A copywriter should professionally write all of your web pages' content. It needs to sound credible, and the overall message needs to be consistent within all of your web pages. Nothing is worse to a potential customer than reading text that is grammatically incorrect or even misspelled.
There are some great books that I gathered in my time on marketing like "Words That Sell", "More Words That Sell", "Hypnotic Writing", that I suggest everyone pick up if you are serious about sell your services. These books have become ingrained into all of my marketing efforts and have helped my clients make hundreds of millions dollars while doing marketing with me.
8. Updating Information
In order to survive online your website needs to have updating information. Either create a company blog that is updated 2 to 3 times a week, an article section that you give advice and information about your industry and products, a company news section that talks strictly about the company's happenings, a press releases section used for special press releases to media outlets, an industry news section that informs visitors on what is going on generally in your industry, a tips and trick section for your product or service, or an active forum to have more informal communication with your visitors and ask any questions they may have. Any one or all of these ideas can be considered a part of your updating information.
The biggest thing is to get traffic flowing to your website, and the best way is to have new information on your website. Daily updates are the best, but setting realistic goals of twice or 3 times a week to start is better. Just stay consistent. After 2 months of this you will no doubt have seen a huge increase in website traffic, sales, leads, and phone calls. Keep it Going!
9. Email/Newsletter
"Grow your list!" – that's what marketers have been preaching since before the Internet went mainstream. Your list of prospects is the key to your survival in good times, and especially in bad. The Internet has made it easier to create a newsletter list that you can email visitors about updates, special promotions, and send our company news or press releases. It is important to keep your brand fresh in their minds, and constantly growing your list is important. I've assembles industry specific databases of millions of double opt-in emails for clients that have allowed them to stay in constant communication with their clients and potential customers.
For a website simply having a newsletter signup on every page, or at the end of your articles pages is going to be key to increasing your marketing share and creating more loyal visitors.
10. Branding
Your Brand is the most important thing your company has. Your website should reflect your company's core values and it should be inline with your "mission statement" and business objectives. Remember your website is a 24 hour 7 days a week representation and sales agent for your company.
Every image you display, the way your content reads to your visitors, and everything you do is all a part of your branding efforts. Get familiar with key marketing terms like brand equity, brand loyalty, and marketing metrics to better understand how to engage your audience with your brand.
I touched on a lot of subjects here lightly, and plan on re-touching each subject more in-depth on the future. There are still several other factors that I did not touch on traffic measuring tools, on-site search engines that I think are a major part of a great website. I plan on talking about this and more in-depth in future articles postings.
Make sure to bookmark this page so you can keep coming back to and referring to it when creating your company's website. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to leave a comment or contact me and I will be more than happy to help you out. I read all comments and make sure to answer back. Thanks for reading – Adelard Gasana.


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It has been my good fortune to visit London several times the past couple of years working on an Olympic project. As we traveled through this fun city, it gave us the opportunity to search for the best fish and chips restaurant in all of London. And, the search was worth all the effort.
I was thrilled to find Rock & Sole Plaice on Endell Street in Covent Garden. This very small corner restaurant with "shared" tables upstairs and down has been in business since 1871. Its colorful history only adds to the obeisance. I personally love the halibut and was thrilled to learn that the "thicker" British chips are lower in fat content than the American fry version (that should justify all the calories), but could it be that the mushy peas just add it right back? I promise, it is all worth it. So, my vote for the best fish and chips goes to Rock & Sole Plaice.
I took my research to the streets of Salt Lake City and I found Ethan Lappe of Caffé Niche with the opinion that the best fish and chips in the US goes to Doug's Fish Fry in Skaneateles and Cortland, New York. This funky little restaurant has "no waitress" as mentioned on their website, but counter help only. It doesn't offer the traditional mushy peas, but Doug's gumbo receives raves. I can't wait to try a "coffee shake" there as well.
So, I want to hear from all of you fish and chips lovers. Let us know what restaurant serves the best in the comments below. And, if you are in Londong to attend the games, check out Rock & Sole.
Maxine Turner is the president of Cuisine Unlimited and contributes monthly blogs about food, catering, trends and more to saltlakemagazine.com.


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Arizona State Career
2004 Outdoor: Recorded all three of his personal best times during the season...posted a fourth-place finish in the 3,000m run at the Bill Sawyer Invitational...also took fifth in the Baldy Castillo Invite's 5,000m run with a personal best of 16:26.33...earned Second Team Pac-10 All-Academic honors... 2004 Indoor: Ran in one race on the season, finishing ninth at the Double Dual in the 3,000m run (9:50.95)... 2003 XC: Ran in three races on the season (once unattached)...finished 32nd at the ASU Invite and 49th at the Canyon West Classic...earned Academic All-Pac-10 Honorable Mention... 2003 Outdoor: Finished 15th at the Mesa Classic in the 1,500m run (4:14.94) in his only outdoor action of the season... 2003 Indoor: Did not compete... 2002 XC: Competed in four races...led all ASU finishers at the Canyon West Invitational with an eighth-place finish (25:53.00)...also was highest Sun Devil finisher in the open race at the Pac-10 Championships (47th)...third-highest finisher on the team at the ASU Invitational (26th).
High School: Dominated the track in the Kaw Valley League, winning 10 individual track titles, one track team title and three cross country titles...four-time champion in the 1600m and 3200m runs...six top-8 finishes in state track meets and two top-4 finishes in cross country...named to the Kansas City Cross Country Coaches Association First Team three times (1999-01) and earned all-state accolades in 2000 and '01...captain of the cross country team in 2000 and '01.
Personal: Majoring in kinesiology...parents are Tom and Kim Lee...born Dec. 19, 1983, in Kansas City, Mo....full name is Griffin Thomas Lee...enjoys watching movies with friends, running and listening to music.
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Things to see and do - Székesfehérvár
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Székesfehérvár Travel guide
Székesfehérvár : Michelin's recommendations
Székesfehérvár is a royal seat, where most of Hungary's kings from Stephen I in 1038 to John I in 1540 were crowned and buried. However, the Turkish invasion in 1543 signalled the end of its royal role. On their departure, the Turks left behind a heap of ruins. Rebuilt in the 18C by Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria, the town was damaged once again during the Second World War; during the ensuing Communist period it became a large industrial centre. It is nonetheless full of unexpected charm.
Tourist attractions Székesfehérvár : Things to see and do
Király István Museum
Fõ utca 6 H - Székesfehérvár 8000
On the ground floor the museum displays Roman sculptures mainly from the Roman town of Gorsium. The first floor is devoted to regional archaeology, from prehistory to the end of the Turkish occupation.
St John of Nepomuk Church
Kossuth Utca H - Székesfehérvár 8000
The inner walls and vaults of this church built by the Jesuits in the mid-18C are covered in magnificent frescoes. Don't miss the fine carved and gilded wood pulpit, or the sacristy with its Rococo furniture made of oak and lime.
Black Eagle Pharmacy
Fõ Utca 5 H - Székesfehérvár 8000
The former Jesuit pharmacy was bought in 1773, at the time when the Order was being suppressed, and was given this name by the new owner. It was in operation until 1971. The interior is very beautiful with carved and fitted furniture made by a Jesuit..
Hotels Székesfehérvár
Hotel Vadászkürt
Móricz Zsigmond u. 1 H - Székesfehérvár 8000
Hotel Vadászkürt offers an attractive setting just 500 metres from the centre of Székesfehérvár. It is decorated in warm terracotta tones and offers free Wi-Fi access. Guests can relax and sip refreshments in the stylish bar and wine tavern. Hotel ..
Hotel Platan
Gyümölcs u. 28 H - Székesfehérvár 8000
Prix Prices from : 36 €
The Hotel Platan in Szekesfehervar is a 10-minute walk from the historical city centre and close to the M7 Motorway. It offers air conditioned rooms, free internet, free parking and a sauna. The half-board including a 2-course menu, as well as à la ..
Novotel Szekesfehervar
Ady Endre 19-21 H - SZEKESFEHERVAR 8000
Prix Prices from : 41 €
Make yourself at home in 4-star comfort a few steps from the historical centre at Novotel Szekesfehervar hotel. Subdued colours, uncluttered modern decor and natural light make your room a calm haven for work or relaxation. Large windows let the suns..